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		<title>Key numbers from China&#8217;s 2010-2020 education plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2001, I spent a year teaching English in Wuhan University of Science and Technology. That certainly gave me a first flavor of Chinese university life, but I still understood very little about the Chinese higher education system &#8211; partly because that university was a private-public venture, which (at least my campus) seemed to focus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reganmian.net/blog/2010/02/28/key-numbers-from-chinas-2010-2020-education-plan/</link>
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		<title>OER and P2PU: Talk at Indira Gandhi National Open University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been very interested in the work of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for a long time. It&#8217;s one of the mega-universities in the world, perhaps the biggest, with close to two million students. I wrote a very excited post earlier about how they have opened almost all of their educational material, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reganmian.net/blog/2010/01/20/oer-and-p2pu-talk-at-indira-gandhi-national-open-university/</link>
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		<title>Equitable Governance in Multilingual Wikipedia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about the issue of &#8220;equitable access to governance in globally distributed multilingual organizations&#8221; for several years now. That&#8217;s a mouth-full, but basically the idea is that you have organizations like Wikipedia, the KDE project (an open-source desktop) or iCommons. Although these kind of organizations are often legally based in the US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reganmian.net/blog/2010/01/19/equitable-governance-in-multilingual-wikipedia/</link>
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		<title>Tweets from Critical Point of View: WikiWars conference in Bangalore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am just back from Bangalore, where I had the good fortune to participate in the Critical Point of View: WikiWars conference &#8211; a critical reflection on Wikipedia from a number of point of views. I will probably write more about some of the most interesting presentations, my own presentation, and other thoughts, but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reganmian.net/blog/2010/01/14/tweets-from-critical-point-of-view-wikiwars-conference-in-bangalore/</link>
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		<title>Harper Valley PTA/Fru Johnsen/Fröken Fredriksson</title>
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It&#8217;s incredible the stuff you can find on the internet, how everything is linked together. So I&#8217;m in our little apartment in Beijing trying to clean up before my wife comes back, and put on a collection of Norwegian 60&#8217;s music which I have downloaded. The first song is cute, the story of some woman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reganmian.net/blog/2009/12/21/harper-valley-pta-fru-johnsen-froken-fredriksso/</link>
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		<title>Innovative projects in the publishing of OER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In October, University of Toronto participated in the world-wide Open Access Week with a number of different events. I got the honor of starting off with the first event (although I believe there was one event the week before), with a presentation about Innovative projects in the publishing of OER. I&#8217;ve always been interested in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reganmian.net/blog/2009/11/19/innovative-projects-in-the-publishing-of-oer/</link>
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		<title>Article about Peer2Peer University in L&#8217;Actualité</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In September, someone called from L&#8217;Actualité, a weekly magazine based in Montreal, and wanted to interview me about Peer2Peer University. The final article keeps mentioning us in the same sentence as University of the People, whereas I think we are quite different, but it&#8217;s great to get the word out to the over one million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reganmian.net/blog/2009/11/19/article-about-peer2peer-university-in-lactualite/</link>
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		<title>Creating a &#8220;dictionary&#8221; from KDE translation files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve previously written about how I used interwiki links in Wikipedia to extract dictionary information (here and here). After talking with a friend, I got another idea for how I could extract even more dictionary information &#8211; localization files. You might know that open source projects like KDE are available in many different languages, translated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reganmian.net/blog/2009/11/01/creating-a-dictionary-from-kde-translation-files/</link>
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		<title>Identity rap from Norwegian-Egyptian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was walking home tonight, I listened to Migrapolis on my iPod. It&#8217;s a Norwegian radio show about multiculture, identity and immigrants. Last week they interviewed the daughter of the &#8220;king of the gypsies&#8221; in Norway, who never went to school, and grew up to become a drug addict. Finally, she decided to kick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reganmian.net/blog/2009/10/28/identity-rap-from-norwegian-egyptian/</link>
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		<title>The ethical review process for social science research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading &#8220;My freshman year&#8221;, an ethnographic book about a professor enrolling as a student at her own university, and spending a year living in the dormitory, to try to understand why she feels so disconnected from the contemporary student culture. The book was published under the pseudonym Rebekah Nathan, but a journalist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reganmian.net/blog/2009/10/28/the-ethical-review-process-for-social-science-research/</link>
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