Education technology and big news from for-profit companies made headlines this week, with CIOs from around higher ed flocking to Educause and Apollo getting into talks about possibly buying McGraw-Hill's education business.

Those stories and a look at the future of MOOC badges versus degrees were our five most read posts over the last few days. Find out what you might have missed below:

• Educause 2012: 5 ways online learning is disrupting education—Education Dive sat in on Innosight Institute Executive Director Michael B. Horn's "Disrupting College" panel at Educause Wednesday, and this is what he had to say about the changes coming to education.
• Can MOOC badges compete with degrees?—The information-age credentials are gaining steam at the same time as MOOCs.
• Ed Tech Talk: Matthew Trevett-Smith on iPads at the University of Richmond—Education Dive kicks off its visit to Educause this week by talking to Matthew Trevett-Smith, an academic technology consultant at the University of Richmond, where classroom iPad use is going under the microscope.
• Apollo interested in buying McGraw-Hill Education—The company, which runs the second-largest educational publishing business in the world, seems to have chosen Apollo over two other potential buyers.
• Pearson to reveal new OER search engine today—The search engine, Project Blue Sky, will not only return free material from "over 25" sources, but content for purchase from the publishing giant's own catalog.

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