I remember seeing this before. The quality of the courses were often quite poor. And many instructors would start a course and not finish it, leaving the people following the course hanging.

> The quality of the courses were often quite poor. And many instructors would start a course and not finish it, leaving the people following the course hanging.

"Reddit". Big ambitions, then nothing.

Yeah that was my first impression the last time it was posted up here. Although since then it seems like they've made a lot of improvements to the UI of the site, certainly looks more polished.

Note this is a fairly longstanding vector (offshoot?) of Reddit; it's been going on for at least a few years, and was featured on Reddit's blog in August 2012: http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/university-of-reddit-explore-...

Here are the previous Hacker News discussions about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5366423

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4409219

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479143

As an ex-reddit user (and ex-ex-digg user) I know why this project isn't as popular as they thought it would be, it lacks a Cat section, a Meme section, a <insert cute animal> section, ...

Hey now, I totally added cats, memes, and bacon into my class.

Bitter hipster is hipster.

Oh, for heaven's sake. Two Excel courses and an Office 365 course in the Computer Science section? I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.

Am I missing something?

http://universityofreddit.com/category/23442/computer-scienc...

- Introduction to C++: A video guided tutorial

- Intro to MySQL

- ...

There are two Excel courses and an Office 365 course mixed in with those. They should be moved to a "Software Application" section or something.

I think they're trying to best duplicate a real universities course listings.

I just signed up but I can't tell what this is. Do they have courses on all these topics? Or is it a forum to discuss courses from other places?

It really depends on the teacher. Just make sure you check their class page, as it often lists where to find the content and if there are live sessions. To find the class page button, just click the plus sign next to the class name, and you'll see the button on the bottom right of the expanded area.

It's a place for random people to teach online courses, using a subreddit for discussion.