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By jdupuis on October 20, 2010.
  • The False Security of Technology? What Might We Be Missing?
  • Reading Instrumentally
  • Why blogging still matters
  • Outsourcing Plus (Partnering to provide more online ed choices)
  • Long Road to Open Access
  • The Down-side of Technology? On Class Time
  • Wikimedia: Power, Leadership, and Movement Roles
  • Gaming as Teaching Tool
  • Blogs in higher education - some ideas about their benefits and downsides
  • Portrait of the Scholar as Blogger
  • 7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College
  • Principles for Open Bibliographic Data
  • The Web Parenthesis: Is the "open Web" closing?
  • Rebuilding an Academic Law Library Part 1 and Part 2: Everything Old Is New Again
  • OA Week Repost: My Father the Anthropologist; or, What I Offer Open Access and Why
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