As technology evolves new patterns concerning the delivery of information to students changes. For instance, it may appear subversive to suggest that disruptive innovation may lead to the end of schools as we know them today. However, consider the colossal sum to be saved if there was no need to build multi million dollar campuses with associated peripherals; no longer a need to spend staggering amounts of money on multilayers of administrative staff and managerial employees. After all, it could be validly argued that such personnel add little to student achievement levels. In other words, disruptive innovation changes the manner and processes of an entire market.
To continue with the current tradition of delivering content in a classroom does little more than to sustain an existing model of accepted value teaching (sustaining innovation). So for a moment, contemplate a learning space with no campus, no buildings and radically altered work environment for teachers. Much of the content being delivered online (e.g. virtual classrooms, Skype, live blogs, webinars and so on). The former merely survives whilst the latter seeks to thrive. Thus the paradigm of a traditional school leads to complacency, as these schools already have a dominant foothold in the marketplace. However, as time passes constructive disruptive innovation begins to gain market share leading ultimately to extinction.
Take for example a car powered by petrol - it is in the stakeholder's interests to resist change to the emergence of the electric car. Petro rich nations shiver at the prospect at such development. Yet, the reality is that electric powered cars are gradually increasing their market share. Or take a moment to look at the taxi industry and the advent of Uber.
I have provided a few links on the topic below.
Regards,
Marc
http://www.christenseninstitute.org/why-disruptive-innovation-matters-to-education/
http://www.claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts/
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine
http://www.amepac.org/HumanCapConfFiles/2013/Disrupting%20College%20Arizona.pptx.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPD8hfOgwPQ#t=505
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbAGRSPw8ZI
To continue with the current tradition of delivering content in a classroom does little more than to sustain an existing model of accepted value teaching (sustaining innovation). So for a moment, contemplate a learning space with no campus, no buildings and radically altered work environment for teachers. Much of the content being delivered online (e.g. virtual classrooms, Skype, live blogs, webinars and so on). The former merely survives whilst the latter seeks to thrive. Thus the paradigm of a traditional school leads to complacency, as these schools already have a dominant foothold in the marketplace. However, as time passes constructive disruptive innovation begins to gain market share leading ultimately to extinction.
Take for example a car powered by petrol - it is in the stakeholder's interests to resist change to the emergence of the electric car. Petro rich nations shiver at the prospect at such development. Yet, the reality is that electric powered cars are gradually increasing their market share. Or take a moment to look at the taxi industry and the advent of Uber.
I have provided a few links on the topic below.
Regards,
Marc
http://www.christenseninstitute.org/why-disruptive-innovation-matters-to-education/
http://www.claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts/
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine
http://www.amepac.org/HumanCapConfFiles/2013/Disrupting%20College%20Arizona.pptx.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPD8hfOgwPQ#t=505
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbAGRSPw8ZI
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