I remember seeing this before. The quality of the courses were often quite poor. And many instructors would start a course and not finish it, leaving the people following the course hanging.
Note this is a fairly longstanding vector (offshoot?) of Reddit; it's been going on for at least a few years, and was featured on Reddit's blog in August 2012: <a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/university-of-reddit-explore-any.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/university-of-reddit-explore-...</a><p>Here are the previous Hacker News discussions about it:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5366423" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5366423</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4409219" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4409219</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479143" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479143</a>
As an ex-reddit user (and ex-ex-digg user) I know why this project isn't as popular as they thought it would be, it lacks a Cat section, a Meme section, a <insert cute animal> section, ...
Oh, for heaven's sake. Two Excel courses and an Office 365 course in the <i>Computer Science</i> section? I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.