RandomDorm.com

Video chatting just got a little bit easier for college students. RandomDorm, created by Web developer Josh Weinstein and maintained by GoodCrush, connects students through random video chats.

By limiting the pool of potential chat partners to college students, Weinstein hopes to provide students with a certain degree of security and promote a community spirit.

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Going online for college courses is an increasingly popular medium for attending class. It’s convenient, self-paced, and best of all, affordable!

EduFire is another to join the ranks of the online class providers. This week they announced the receipt of $1.3 million in funding to increase their offerings to students.

There are currently a number of courses students can follow. It was originally a platform for learning languages – thus the robust offerings in that category. There are about 50 language courses, including American Sign Langauge, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Read the rest of this entry »

Just before YouTube EDU was unveiled, Academic Earth came online, and very quickly the “free college video” niche created some formidable competition. While YouTube EDU is an aggregation of all the existing education-related content on the video leader’s site, Academic Earth is the brain child of Richard Ludlow.

He was a Yale student, studying linear algebra, and sought additional information online to help him through the course. What he found was a full-length course via video with Gilbert Strang, an MIT math professor. He figured he wasn’t the only one seeking this kind of information, and after doing research learned that educational resources online were scattered across many different resources. Thus, he brought them together at Academic Earth. Read the rest of this entry »

Today marked the first day of class for Youtube EDU. They’ve aggregated all of their video content related to more than 100 universities into a new space at YouTube.com/Edu. You’ll find the expected throwbacks to college life, but more importantly they’ve created a space virtually offering free education to anyone with Internet access. It’s bound to become a go-to source for those planning to attend college, or those already in class, looking for some additional support, as you’ll find college news, campus tours, lecture series and other resources. Read the rest of this entry »