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By jdupuis on November 23, 2012.
  • College, Reinvented: The Finalists
  • Napster, Udacity, and the Academy
  • Is the death of newspapers the end of good citizenship?
  • MOOCs and the Future of the University
  • Survival of the Fittest in the New Music Industry
  • The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever
  • How Dead Is the Book Business?
  • Beyond Literacy and Beyond ‘Beyond Literacy’
  • Conservatives and the Higher Ed 'Bubble'
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics, or What's Really Up With Automated Essay Scoring
  • Our Napster is Udacity: Quality Doesn’t Beat Access
  • University of the future: A thousand year old industry on the cusp of profound change
  • Making the Most of MOOCs
  • Hurricane Sandy Highlights the Problems of Digital Archives
  • Why Online Education Works (by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank)
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