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Following a pilot program to test a new learning management system, faculty at Florida State College at Jacksonville have voted to stick with their existing LMS. MoreThe WICHE Cooperative for Education Technologies has partnered with Blackboard, Mozilla, and Sage Road Solutions to host a massive open online course examining the use of badges in professional credentialing. MoreThe University of California's Academic Senate has passed a policy that strongly encourages faculty to make their published research publicly available online. MoreIBM has built out its thousand-strong higher ed partnerships by adding five additional education entities in the United States to its Academic Initiative focused on big data and analytics. The company also announced more than $140,000 in awards to instructors for research and curricula development on big data. MorePublisher Elsevier has launched a new open journal on gastrointestinal endoscopy that includes videos with each article. MoreCollegeNet, creator of the online platform to host scholarship competitions by the same name, has launched an application evaluation system designed for tablets. MoreAudience and student response systems company Turning Technologies has acquired interactive education technology company eInstruction, in a move that both companies are characterizing as more collaborative partnership than acquisition. More
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