Blackboard and Mozilla digital badges could have role in MOOCs
Learning management system (LMS) giant Blackboard has partnered with the nonprofit Mozilla to introduce a new update to its LMS software that would support the use of digital…
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NovoEd to offer first team-based Spanish-language MOOC
A recent study of one MOOC found that students from 194 countries participated in the course and 16 percent of the students spoke Spanish. Yet, the vast majority…
New initiative to study MOOCs with Gates Foundation grants
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent millions of dollars helping to bolster non-profit massive open online course (MOOC) ... Read more
Vanderbilt University creates institute devoted to digital learning, MOOCs
As the conversation surrounding massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other means of online learning gets louder, many universities are still trying to sort through the noise and…