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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>Academic Reputation in the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading Professor Martin Weller’s very interesting recent blog posts about academic reputation and online engagement. He raises interesting questions about the nature of scholarly activity, the factors that have traditionally lead to recognition and promotion and whether or not these are changing in an increasingly socially networked world. These questions are important [...]]]></description>
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