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Disruptive Education Point #2

Posted by: junea on: July 15, 2008

See here for background to this post. 
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 [...]

Do Children Learn in Different Ways?

Posted by: junea on: July 3, 2008

See previous post for background (click here)
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, [...]

Disruptive Innovation in Education

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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