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Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders

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Awesome.

When evaluating MOOCS, I usually have a list of courses that sound cool, but I haven't investigated yet. Once I investigate them a bit more, I put the good ones on a much shorter list of classes which I actually plan to take.

Features to assist this process of narrowing down potential courses after discovering them (beyond ratings) would help you offer a better product than CourseTalk. Perhaps a calendar or multiple lists (interesting, will take, currently taking, finished -- you get the idea).

Yes absolutely! We are working on both better filtering and on tools to help with the process of actually scheduling your learning into your free time, as the typical MOOC user tends to fit their learning alongside a job or full-time studies. Multiple lists is a great idea - we'll have a think about how to best implement it! Thanks for your kind words!

I love this site, but it could use Ratings functionality. I want to know what other users think about the courses.

Agreed! We are working on this and it should be live before long. We are also working with other sites to integrate their reviews into Accredible. Thanks for the kind words!

Some related services you may want to check out:

http://degreed.com/ tracks and creates a scorecard (like a FICO score) for lifelong learning

http://www.mysliderule.com/ is a pretty comprehensive list of online courses / MOOCs

http://www.coursetalk.com/ has MOOC reviews and ratings

There's also:

https://www.class-central.com another good list of online courses

http://www.skilledup.com a very comprehensive list of learning materials

We (Accredible) are attempting to focus more on high quality courses and then on guiding the user through the learning process by helping with organization of your work, connecting you with other learners and creating portfolio credentials that you can link to from your LinkedIn profile or CV. See http://accredible.com/what_is_accredible for more info!

It would be awesome if there was a way to specify my knowledge in certain fields, and filter out all courses that are too basic. As an example, I'm not interested in seeing dozens of "Introduction to Computer Science" courses, but I would be interested in a more advanced course on Artificial intelligence.

Perhaps integration between this site and Metacademy would fit your needs. Metacademy was discussed in a different HN thread[1] recently, and is especially relevant to your query because it seems that the seed topics are machine learning and probabilistic AI.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617683

We'd be totally up for that, Metacademy is fantastic - saw them yesterday too and had fun looking around. They seem to be very focused on Machine Learning at the moment, but could certainly make a great synergy once they've expanded their focus a little.

We've been working on that as it's something that affects lots of people. A very common case (which applies to me) is that you want advances courses in one topic and then introductory in others. The infrastructure for levelling is already there but we're having to manually assess the level of courses for most providers which takes some time.

Co-creator here - that's an great idea. I'd really like to see more sophisticated course suggestions too - I'll add it to our to-do list!

If you could somehow organise a calendar functionality so that I could just log in and see my daily/weekly requirements that would be a massive tipping point.

I would happily pay for that. The clunky export to Google Calendar does not work that well and it relies on tutors have the file for import to begin with.

I typically partake in 2-3 MOOCs and another personal dev course at the same time.

Calendar type functionality = my $$$

Great product BTW. Love it.

Thanks! Yes that would be great - we've thought up some similar ideas too. We'll start working on it :)

In addition to reminding me when the course starts, could you remind me of homework/quiz deadlines as well?

This would be awesome. We are trying to work out the best way to do this (ideally we'll partner with the MOOC providers) but it is certainly on our upcoming feature list!

If the information is available, why not offer to add it to someone's calendar?

Love it. However, is there a way to add past courses to my "records"? When I try to add the past iteration of a course to my wall, it adds the next iteration.

Ah sorry about that - that's a bug. You should be able to add previous iterations of a course if you select the 'show past courses' checkbox. Will look into this and fix asap - UX for this does need some work too :)

Thanks for checking in and the quick responses!

Yeah, I selected the 'show past courses' checkbox and selected a course that was over a year ago. If you are looking for specific data points for the bug, it was the Coursera "Machine Learning" class.

Ah thanks for that info, that helps!

cool - i just used it to search for a course i need some people to take.

there may be a bug - i searched for "change management" and it returned the same course twice with different titles.

https://www.accredible.com/courses/9692 https://www.accredible.com/courses/10113

thanks!

Thanks for letting us know, we'll look into it... looks like that's a bug!

This is really nice guys. Great work. This solves the problem of keeping track of all the MOOC courses. I'm looking forward to using it.

I agree!

Looks great. The majority of the classes I plan to take are on MIT OCW. Are there plans to add it?

Yep! That's one of the next we plan to add.

Love it, any plans on adding Lynda and TutsPlus courses?

Lynda support is coming soon, just added TutsPlus to our list!

I would suggest not adding TutPlus and Lynda since every thing would be jumbled up (all course formats). Please have a clear way to filter out Free courses from the Paid ones.

This is what the courses have been missing!

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Sorry about that - should work now!

Looks awesome!

> Password is too short (minimum is 8 characters)

Dammit! Let me choose my own password!

Sorry about that - yeah I agree... will change that soon!

Will be useful to me!

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