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.

Management innovation and online higher education

Hampson, K. (2009) Part 2: Management Innovation and Online Higher Education Higher Education Management Group, May 25, 2009

I’ve just caught up with this excellent posting by Dr. Keith Hampson, Director, Digital Education Strategies at Ryerson University, Toronto. This outlines the reasons why innovation in higher education institutions is so difficult. It is one in a [...]

Is e-learning failing in higher education?

In an earlier posting, the State of e-Learning, 2008, I suggested that e-learning was failing to meet expectations in higher education. In that posting, I reported that David White, Director, EU Commission DG Education and Culture, Lifelong Learning, in his keynote presentation Innovative Learning for Europe at the 2008 EDEN conference in Lisbon, expressed his [...]

School of the Future: Lessons in failure

Stansbury, M. (2009) School of the Future: Lessons in failure eSchool News, June 1

This is one of a very few articles that deal with failure in technology innovation in education. Although a report about a high school ‘School of the Future’ in Philadelphia, there are perhaps also lessons for post-secondary institutions seeking fundamental changes in [...]

The state of e-learning, 2008

Well, it’s the end of the year, and so why not a personal retrospective of the worldwide state of e-learning at the end of 2008? I did this originally for the European Eqibelt project, based in Croatia, but thought I would share it with you all. Once I have had some Christmas pudding, I might [...]