Implementing e-portfolios in a two year college

Schaffhauser, D. (2010) Cultural Shift at a Community College: E-Portfolios Go Campuswide Campus Technology, August 12

This article on an excellent e-portfolio implementation strategy at a two year college in Farmington, Connecticut, is more about change management than e-portfolios. If you are trying to get faculty buy-in to e-portfolios, this article is a good [...]

Barriers to change: two perspectives

Miller, B. (2010) The Course of Innovation: Using Technology to Transform Higher Education Washington DC: EducationSector

Batson, T. (2010) Innovation in Higher Education: It’s Not the Technology Campus Technology, June 2

There is an increasing awareness that for technology to be used effectively, there has to be changes in the way people work. This [...]

Is this the way to change higher education?

Kamenetz, A. (200) Adapt or decline Inside Higher Education, March 26

This is another breathless romp through the reasons why higher education must change, and how it will change, similar in tone and substance to the Tapscott and William‘s article. Similarly, this article is a mile wide and an inch deep, as one of [...]

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 [...]

Barriers to change: Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 3

The story so far

In an earlier post (Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1), I argued that higher education institutions were suffering systemic problems trying to deal with the challenge of increasing access, increasing or even maintaining quality, and lowering costs, despite extensive use of ICTs.

In the second [...]