Why technology is not disrupting the university sector

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 [...]

The online higher education market in the USA

Garrett, R. (2009) Online Higher Education Market Update Boston MA: Eduventures Inc.

This post is an expansion of an earlier post ‘For-profits increase market share of online learning‘, now I’ve had a chance to read the original report in full. I am grateful to Eduventures for sharing a copy with me, as the report is not [...]

Contact North looks to the future

Introduction

Last week I spent two days at a strategic retreat for Contact North managers in Sudbury, Ontario. I had the privilege last summer of flying across Northern Ontario (twice) in a small plane last summer (see: http://flight.tonybates.ca), so I have some understanding of the geography of the region.

I thought I would provide some information (I [...]

The Horizon 2010 report on emerging technologies for education

Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium

The New Media Consortium’s annual report on emerging technologies is out. It follows previous formats in identifying six technologies over three time periods. This year the authors picked the following:

One year or less

mobile computing
open content

Two to [...]

Disruptive innovation and the HE system

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.