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 [...]

Innovate or die: a message for higher education institutions

It’s funny how reports on the same issue arrive from completely different directions. These four all deal with the issue of innovation and higher education.

Baker, S. (2010) Hefce gives out extra places and takes back £20m from teaching funds Times Higher Education, June 25

Calhoun, T. (2010) Re-imagining Higher Education, Post-Recession SCUP Links [...]

Canadian corporate innovation in e-learning

Galt, V. (2010) How to bake agility into corporate DNA Globe and Mail, May 20

In my blog on Six Priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010 I wrote:

Canada is a leader in mobile technology (Research in Motion, Nortel’s merger with Avaya, etc.), the Canadian mobile networks have just been opened up [...]

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 [...]