Frustrated With Corporate Course-Management Systems, Some Professors Go 'Edupunk'

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A group of tech-savvy professors are claiming punk music as inspiration for their approach to teaching. They call their approach Edupunk. 

Punk rock was a rebellion against the clean, predictable sound of popular music and it also encouraged a do-it-yourself attitude. Edupunk seems to be a reaction against the rise of course-managements systems, which offer cookie-cutter tools that can make every course Web site look the same.

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