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By jdupuis on February 16, 2012.
  • The Great Age of Librarians
  • Amazon Will Destroy You
  • Confessions of a Publisher: "We're in Amazon's Sights and They're Going to Kill Us"
  • Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift
  • Instructional Designers Wanted: No Experience Necessary
  • Libraries and the Commodification of Culture
  • Innovating the Library Way
  • About the Emerging Battles Over Textbooks: Options from Apple to Open Initiatives
  • fallacies of a market approach to public higher ed
  • The perils and pleasures of online gaming for married life
  • Scienceography: the study of how science is written
  • An Experiment in Teaching Writing: A Look Inside the Sausage Factory
  • Disruptive Innovation, encyclopedia chapter by Clayton Christensen
  • At Its Core, Librarianship is a Helping Profession
  • Thoughts on Ontario Higher Education parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 by Mike Ridley
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