PBS Kids launches its first online world: the Kart Kingdom learning community

Even PBS is getting into online games.

Television network PBS Kids has launched its first-ever online world, Kart Kingdom, today. The browser-based (tablet versions launch this summer) learning experience is aimed at children between 6 and 9, and it features a collection curriculum-based online games designed to build collaboration skills. Kart Kingdom lets PBS expand on its goal of engaging children through learning. This is the company’s first step into the game-based learning market, one which Ambient Insight says is expected to hit  $8.9 billion by 2017.