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By jdupuis on August 30, 2012.
  • An Academic Ghostwriter, the 'Shadow Scholar,' Comes Clean
  • The Mechanical MOOC
  • Rewriting the Journal (what will online do to journal publishing)
  • The Siege of Academe
  • The Self-Centered Library: A Paradox (why do we do what we do)
  • Tweeting By Faith (calculating social media ROI for universities)
  • Streaming content: Why buy when you can borrow so much more?
  • Carleton U reveals new donor deal in controversial political management program
  • >MOOCs will mean the death of universities? Not likely
  • The Problems with Peer Grading in Coursera
  • Building a Stellar Team (building an academic executive team)
  • The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy
  • Library catalog metadata: Open licensing or public domain?
  • Male Scientist Balancing Act
  • From CFO to Provost (interesting from a "higher ed as business" perspective)
  • Students Find E-Textbooks ‘Clumsy’ and Don’t Use Their Interactive Features
  • The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Scientific Talk
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