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 [...]

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 post in this [...]