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By jdupuis on June 25, 2013.
  • After Your Job Is Gone
  • Disruptions: The Echo Chamber of Silicon Valley
  • MOOCs as a Lightning Rod
  • The Stories We Tell about MOOCs
  • Fixing the Digital Economy
  • Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in the Academic Library
  • Stop Scaring Students
  • An Avalanche is Coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead
  • Role of librarians changes in digital age
  • Exploring the future of academic libraries: A definitional approach
  • Why You Should Never Have Taken That Prestigious Internship
  • Notes From an Academic Nobody
  • What's a Library?
  • The End of Ownership
  • If you live in a surveillance state for long enough, you create a censor in your head
  • The Rise of MOOCs and The Myth of Mass Exodus in Traditional Higher Ed
  • The Future of Libraries: Short on Books, Long on Tech
  • Online Education: Silver bullet or cyanide pill?
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