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By jdupuis on May 5, 2012.
  • It doesn't matter what e-books cost to make
  • EdX: A Platform for More MOOCs and an Opportunity for More Research about Teaching and Learning Online
  • The Problem With EdX
  • How Should Your University Respond to edX?
  • Resisting the Robo-Assignment
  • The Immersion Method -- I & II (intensive "great books" courses)
  • Reconsidering Academic Careers
  • Libraries as Indoctrination Mills
  • The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity
  • Pay up, Yochai Benkler (the Benkler-Carr wager on the nature of the web)
  • The economics of digital sharecropping
  • Open letter to college graduates
  • A revolutionary new approach to making humanities and social sciences books free
  • Bridging the Divide: The role of libraries in the sciences
  • Open Letter to Higher Ed Scholars (on being more relevant)
  • It's time for a unified ebook format and the end of DRM
  • QR Codes, NFC Chips and New Paths to Book Discovery
  • A SNAPSHOT OF PRIORITIES & PERSPECTIVES: U.S. Academic Libraries
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