christensen_emc

I would add that used cars are increasingly more reliable and easier to vet. There are also more resources available to help identify lemons as well.

That would be cool. My email is in my profile. I'm sure I could help out in some way.

oh absolutely, and thats why I think Reddit is ideal for this sort of thing. Its trivial to post something that tens of thousands of people will see.

I wish this had a dedicated team of paid developers working on it. It could go places I don't think Coursera would necessarily go.

Some things I'd like to see added:

- some sort of improved notification system for announcing new lessons and assigments and mass messaging your students. Perhaps something a little more prominent than the current OrangeRed messages? Having a separate alert for new lectures would be cool.

- a well written guide and list of resources for lecturers. Step by step directions on how to do stuff like set up a wordpress blog or a subreddit or even a dropbox would probably be a good idea for non technical folks. The existing "Help" link is broken, so I'm not quite sure what is offered.

- The ability to embed pictures, diagrams, equations and charts into reddit self posts would be cool. Markdown supports it but it doesn't seem like Reddit does. Maybe raise the character limit so that an entire lesson could fit into a self post on Reddit itself instead of forcing a lecturer to link to an external blog? Some sort of collapse and expand system on top of Markdown would be cool too!

I'd love to help with this.

This goes the other way too. I signed up to teach a course and had close to 200 interested students. I was really excited, wrote up a syllabus and a couple small assignments (15 minutes tops) and created a wordpress blog for all my lessons. I put a fair amount of time in it and got a lot of great buzz, but that was all I got. 2 out of 200 people did the assignments and I only got a handful of hits on the wordpress blog. Noone commented on any of the discussions I put up. It was really disappointing and I ended up ending the course early.

That said, I love UReddit. Its a great idea. The reddit community is immense and there are a lot of opportunities for some really neat lessons that Coursera wouldn't necessarily offer.