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		<title>Early Thoughts on MITx</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIT today announced MITx which appears to be an open learning initiative. They describe it as “an online interactive learning platform” that will offer a portfolio of MIT courses. organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication allow for the individual assessment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALTC and Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a post last week on the demise of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) but never actually published it. Thankfully David Jones (@djplaner) wrote a much more thoughtful and balanced post about the topic on his own blog which is well worth reading. Particularly his thoughts on the culture of research incentives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Worried About Delicious</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Smithers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just been reading this post on ReadWriteWeb that suggests there is a deal in the offing  that will see Yahoo search disappear to be replaced by Bing with Yahoo providing ads against the search results. Now I quite like Bing, I find it very quick, the results are good and I like the interface. [...]]]></description>
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