By Trent M Kays, Minnesota Daily
Yes, you read that correctly: the University of Reddit. While the website technically isn’t affiliated with the social news and entertainment website Reddit.com, it has adopted a similar name and platform. Except instead of up- or down-voting links and news stories, users rank potential courses. Maybe this is the future of higher education: completely participatory, user-generated and open to anyone with an Internet connection and a computer. Users learn from other users, and while the current University of Reddit idea may not be suited for formal learning, it certainly can serve as a supplement to it. Moreover, it’s not all that different from the informal learning that happens in our day-to-day lives. We learn how to do things all the time outside of a classroom. That will never change.
http://www.mndaily.com/opinion/columns/2013/05/29/go-university-reddit
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