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By jdupuis on September 1, 2012.
  • Patents Considered Evil
  • The MOOC debate
  • Higher Ed 2020: Epic Fail?
  • The Digital Age and Higher Education
  • Smart Writing: It’s good to be published, and better to be understood
  • Writing Books People Want to Read
  • 3 Reasons Why There's No Measuring ROI On Social Media
  • Getting scientists to take ethics seriously: strategies that are probably doomed to failure.
  • Elitism, Equality and MOOCs
  • MOOCs and the overprepared student
  • Grading Clout? (using Klout to assign marks)
  • Learning From One Another (peer grading on Coursera)
  • Heard: The Sad Anthropological Truth About The Adjunct Professor Life
  • Bury Your Writing — Why Do Academic Book Chapters Fail to Generate Citations?
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