Brad Powers

Over the last ten years or so, there has been a significant increase in the use of online education for many universities and higher education institutions. That is not news. What is news, according to an official from the University of California-Irvine, is that all American campuses will soon be offering some type of “free open courseware.”

This was the discussion that took place a few weeks ago on the UC Irvine campus which focused on the various “trends in free course material and how making textbooks, lectures and other course materials available online free of charge has changed higher education.” Indeed, it has even been predicted that this type of courseware will soon be standard at “small community colleges and research universities alike.”

Even though YouTube might be a great time waster and something that parents, teachers and educators in general want to ensure the children in their care avoid, great educational material can be gleaned if just a little selectivity is employed. But how can you weed out the bad stuff so that children are free to benefit from the good?

Thanks to M86 Security (an Internet Security Company) there is now a service that achieves this goal. VuSafe is a free website designed to enable educators to seek out worthy video content from YouTube (as well as other sites). In addition, the software lets you take good video clips to an online library and share them with students, omitting anything inappropriate.

So for those looking for a fun and enjoyable way to get an online education without the negative stuff, VuSafe is a great way to do it.