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Mozilla's Open Badges initiative has received the official nod from educational technology company Blackboard, which has integrated digital badges into its learning management systems Blackboard Learn and CourseSites. MoreAmericans of traditional college age are loaded up with personal devices and have the highest rate of ownership of mobile phones among all age groups, according to a new report released this week by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. MoreA school-vendor partnership intended to test a new twist on the MOOC went belly-up a day after it was announced. MoreKaplan University's School of Information Technology is expanding its gamification and badging efforts following positive results from a recently conducted pilot program. MoreThe number of college students taking at least one online course nearly doubled, from 23 percent to 45, over the last five years according to the 2013 College Explorer, a new report from market research company re:fuel. MoreSonic Foundry is rolling out a major update to its flagship lecture capture system, the Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform, with new software and hardware additions and a new My Mediasite interface for creating and uploading media. MoreLectora is kicking off a private beta of a new cloud-based, on-demand learning management system, Lectora Express LMS. More
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