By Tony Bates, on February 21st, 2010
Keith Hampson’s Higher Education Management Group blog has an interview with Lloyd Armstrong, the Provost of the University of Southern California, on change in universities.
Armstrong’s comments are what I should have written in response to the Tapscott and William’s article.
This interview indicates clearly why Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive change is not working in the [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 14th, 2010
Tapscott, D. and Williams, A. (2010) Innovating the 21st century university: It’s Time Educause Review, Vol. 45, No. 1
First of all, thanks to both Burkhard Lehmann and Clayton Wright for directing me to this article. I had however seen it myself a couple of weeks ago, and have hesitated to respond to it, for reasons [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 10th, 2010
Schreurs, B. (ed.) (2010) Reviewing the Virtual Campus Phenomenon Heverlee Belgium: Europace
This book is essential reading for any student wishing to do research on e-learning. It provides a comprehensive analysis and discussion of the organization of online learning around the world.
The book is a result of an interesting process. It is really a report on [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 18th, 2010
Hampson, K. (2010) Great Quotes (#2) Disruptive Innovation Higher Education Management Group, January 17
Keith Hampson’s excellent blog provides a good discussion and some valuable references on the relevance of Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation to post-secondary education.
By Tony Bates, on January 1st, 2010
Bassis, M. (2009) Reigning in college costs Businessweek, December 21
This is a useful article, from the President of Westminster College, Salt Lake City, to give to your administration to get more support for online learning. I liked particularly his description of how the college business school uses a competency-based approach and e-portfolios within an online [...]
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