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

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!

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!

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!

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

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

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

Sorry about that - should work now!

Ah thanks for that info, that helps!

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 :)

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!

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

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.

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!

I really like this approach. The key thing for me is the omnipresence: having a nice big list next to you all of the time I think would be a great reminder of your priorities. I'll try this out!

Nice idea - I signed up!

I've always wished Pocket had a PDF export option that would give you a magazine/newspaper style layout of your saved articles from that week.

Have you guys thought about a digital version too?

If short educational videos are your thing, here's a pretty comprehensive list of the highest quality channels out there:

(My personal favorites are Vsauce, Veritasium, SciShow, Crash Course & CPG Grey)

ASAPScience - Fun, short interesting facts/explanations https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC552Sd-3nyi_tk2BudLUzA

BigThink - Predominant people talking about interesting issues in short segments https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg

CPG Grey - an awesome professor talking about interesting facts https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w

Computerphile - short videos explaining concepts in CS https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA

Crash Course - beautifully designed courses for several subjects segmented into short videos. Highly recommended! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q

Engineering explained - learn everything you wanted to know about car internals https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClqhvGmHcvWL9w3R48t9QXQ

IFLScience - short science news updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvOTgnW7oj9ZWDd2y5TEApw

Minute Earth - beautifully animated short science fact videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeiYXex_fwgYDonaTcSIk6w

Minute Physics - as above, but purely about physics https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHW94eEFW7hkUMVaZz4eDg

SciShow - this was one of the first short science video channels - awesome. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZYTClx2T1of7BRZ86-8fow

SciShow Space - as above, but about space https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrMePiHCWG4Vwqv3t7W9EFg

SixtySymbols - short videos talking about interesting symbols https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvBqzzvUBLCs8Y7Axb-jZew

SmarterEveryDay - awesome science explanation videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6107grRI4m0o2-emgoDnAA

Veritasium - very high quality science explanation videos - awesome guy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA

VSaurce - mindblowing videos, usually around 10m, taking you on a tour of interesting facts and ideas. Check out Vsauce2 & 3 too. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nSFpj9HTCZ5t-N3Rm3-HA

I think this personalized approach is really important - showing that you're not a faceless corporation but in fact a team of people working towards the same goals is a great thing to strive for.

Awesome - two of my favorite SM companies working together to make my life a little easier... nice one Buffer & Mention!

Nice - thanks for sharing!

Is there? Tested pretty thoroughly here on Chrome - did we miss something? Thanks!

Thanks - appreciate the kind words :)

Sure - we are building it using the Grumby frontend framework (http://gumbyframework.com) with Rails & AngularJS

Thanks for the kind words! The feedback is much apprecaited too. It's currently used largely as a learning tracking tool by our beta community (we intend to launch the open beta early Q1 2014!). We started to focus on the employer side a lot earlier than we had planned due to user feedback and encouragement from startup employers (we wanted to avoid the chicken/egg situation, which is why we focused on building up the consumer side as a learning tracking platform first). Keeping people's data searchable, filterable and readable is certainly top of our minds as we flesh this side out and this is indeed one of our bigger challenges at the moment. We are still working out the best way to tackle this without sacrificing too much flexibility, but at the moment (with a smallish user base) a system of tagging your cards and narratives with skills and then backing that up with a combination of attached evidence and references (using LinkedIn profiles to verify referee identity) for credibility seems to be working pretty well.

Yes - absolutely. One of the frustrations we often hear when talking to recruiters is that it's difficult to place confidence in anything written in a resume without sitting the candidate down for an interview. We are thinking that by allowing you to attach evidence of each of the claims you make it'll be harder to lie using something like Accredible and at the same time making it easier to add credibility to things that traditionally would be hard to include on a resume such as online courses, self-education and personal projects. With an approach like this, you can actually demonstrate all the work, learning and knowledge you have gained.

Thanks, I'll shoot you a mail :)

Our intention is to charge on the employer side to search for and be matched to candidates if job seekers opt-in to making their profiles searchable (think OKCupid for recruiters with actual evidence of skills & experience for you to browse through) . The idea is that the cards that you use for job applications can be generalized and turned into a profile (either public or private) to show to future stakeholders as well as for reuse in future job applications but that you can create new cards for new projects, courses, etc. without having to apply for a job at the same time. We've had some good ongoing activity with users in our closed beta who are using Accredible as a way to track their ongoing learning (especially MOOCs - most of our early beta testers came through the Coursera forums) and using it for much more personal reasons - almost like a trophy cabinet of their learning. So we think we have a good chance at avoiding the trap of users only using it for life events. Appreciate your thoughts on this - thanks!

We think that focusing on startup (and smaller company) jobs should tend to avoid this type of requirement as they are generally much more flexible and open-minded when it comes to job application format requirements and generally want to see more depth on prospective employees - especially on areas like personality traits and interests, which are hard to express in a traditional resume or cover letter.

We haven't decided to specifically focus on mobile, although one neat use case we had in mind was that an Accredible narrative might be a great thing to take into an in-person interview with you on a mobile or tablet and then using that to illustrate the points that you'd like to make once they ask you to elaborate on your skills, projects, experience and interest. Our primary intended use case however is more on desktop-focused job applications.

That's exactly the idea! We wanted to create a way to back up the claims you make about yourself. The idea originally actually came from a big interest in MOOCs and self-education. We wanted to create a way to be able to use this kind of education in job interviews that would be credible. It shouldn't matter where or how you learned something - just that you did. We also wanted to help people provide extra depth about the learning they did in more traditional settings (like college). For example in my case I studied Computer Science - but what does that mean I can actually do? This is a way to show that in a (hopefully) elegant way whilst keeping it skimmable in under a minute.