Posted by: junea on: July 15, 2008
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2. Disruptive innovations gain a foothold and revolutionize a market because they target a niche audience who normally could not consume a good.
I think this point is where the authors really are on to something. In my own case study research of cyber charter schools, this theme came up [...]
Posted by: junea on: July 3, 2008
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The first statement that Christensen et al (in Disrupting Class) make is that children learn in different ways. They cite Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory as evidence that children have different modes of learning. Furthermore, they make the jump to education stating that the current system uses a standardized, [...]
Posted by: junea on: July 2, 2008
A book that has received a lot of hype lately is Disrupting Class by Clayton Christensen and others. I found the book to be extremely interesting, as the authors predict that online learning will expand to encompass 50% of the courses taught in K-12 education by 2019, and that social media (like Web 2.0 applications) [...]
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