[anastas]

Hello, I'm the UReddit admin and author of the linked post. I'm glad to see appreciation here for Dr. Donley's class.

As we say in the article, we are trying to put together a better platform for teachers to use when they want to teach with more freedom and with more rights to their intellectual property rights than they might have when doing it through a university, and so that they can have many parts of the teaching process automated in order to be able to focus on actually playing the roles of educators.

We're running a Kickstarter to help us get our prototype into beta, and we appreciate any and all support. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1918344721/open-compass

[dmix]

I haven't heard of UReddit before.

What's the pitch?

[anastas]

UReddit was a proof of concept based on which we founded the nonprofit. The pitch is essentially that anyone that would like to teach should be free to do so, so we made a place where people can do that. Now, Dr. Donley, who taught the class the linked blog post is about, had been composing video lectures for two years, but he did use the UReddit platform to run two classes and receive more attention/recognition for his efforts and quality of execution. And now we'd like to make a technologically sophisticated platform that automated the busy work of teaching and is better suited to becoming a community.