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 8th, 2010
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 26th, 2010
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 [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 23rd, 2010
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 [...]
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.
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