SXSWedu 2013

UReddit: An Organic, Crowdsourced MOOC

Interconnectivity on the personal level has reached unprecedented levels in contemporary times; the University of Reddit project is an experiment in using this phenomenon to expand the MOOC paradigm through a permutation within the set of teachers and students, providing a platform that allows anyone with an internet connection and a passion to become a teacher or a student.

UReddit is entirely community driven and reflects the diverse backgrounds and natures of the people that have come to participate in the experiment. Its organic growth, which has not been directed by a central governing entity, is an illustration of the viability of the ideals behind constructing a community based entirely on freedom of flow of information. For these reasons and more, UReddit may well be at the cusp of a new paradigm.