By Preetha Ram on the Innovating Education blog, Jan 25 2012. Ram looks at social capital in terms of persistence in education, but also considers social capital in terms of (education) badges.
By Preetha Ram on Innovating Education blog, September 15 2011. In this post, Ram posits the badge as a means of promoting retention in online courses, particularly free and open courses.
By Nick DeSantis on Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 23, 2012. Article is about Sebastian Thrun, a research professor of computer science at Stanford who has given up teaching to found Udacity, a start-up offering low-cost online classes.