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By jdupuis on September 20, 2012.
  • So you got a job with your prof: advice for undergrads
  • Undergrad Herding
  • The Great Geek Sexism Debate
  • New York Public Library Shifts Plan for 5th Ave. Building
  • New York Public Library Dials Back Plan to Move Books
  • New York Public Library Board of Trustees Approves Construction of Additional Book Storage at Landmark 42nd Street Building
  • Lions in Winter, Part One and Part Two
  • Amanda Palmer’s Million-Dollar Music Project and Kickstarter’s Accountability Problem
  • Why Reducing Faculty Stress Should Be An Explicit Goal of Academic IT
  • Mature Market for Online Education
  • MOOC Host Expands (Coursera expands partnerships again)
  • Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
  • Self Publishing Authors Are ‘Suspect’ and ‘Cheats’
  • The MOOC Survivors (only the most persistent usually finish what they start)
  • MOOCs: voting with one’s feet
  • MOOC-land Through the Residential Online Prism
  • Digital Identity Development (a new element of the core curriculum?)
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