Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In the 2010s, coding bootcamps caught the higher education world’s imagination. At the Christensen Institute, we wondered if they might disrupt universities’ master’s degree programs. At the Christensen Institute, we wondered if they might disrupt universities’ master’s degree programs.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

There are lots of promising innovations in tiny pockets of the education system, but decades of advocacy and investment have failed to see those innovations scale. But the concept of value networks can do more than explain why disruptive models struggle to take root. All organizations live within value networks.

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Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Can innovative, future-ready models of schooling be built from the schools that are common across the education landscape today? Or is it popular because most people in education work within existing school systems and have to believe that these systems can change, or else their efforts would seem futile?

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Disruptive innovations need three enablers: a technology, an organizational model, and a value network. In K–12 education, it’s hard to find value networks that can support new organizational models. It was also rooted in the theory of Disruptive Innovation—a pattern that had borne out across many sectors. Key points.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 23, 2022

These are the critical questions the Christensen Institute’s education team aimed to answer in its inaugural readership survey, conducted February 1-15, and which received 92 responses. Below, we delve into the three key takeaways from your input, and how the education team is responding. Are we having an impact in the field?

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 2, 2024

To state the obvious, 2023 has been a tumultuous year in higher education. The decline in enrollment in higher education, disruptive alternatives to higher education, demographic declines, and the continued rise in spending by higher education. Indeed, more instability is in store in the year ahead.

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Christensen Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The pandemic cast education technology (edtech) into a starring — and some might argue above-its-paygrade — role in education. Although by no means perfect, before the pandemic, technologies in education had been steadily improving for decades. Learning skills and acquiring knowledge are cornerstones of education.

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Jeffrey Phillips

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But, as you are well aware, this is not a blog about poetry, but a blog about innovation. Waiting for chaos or disruptions to end before adapting loses ground in two dimensions. Second, the result after the chaos ends is a new market, shaped by new forces, and a new disruption will emerge to change things again.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Key point: This week, the Christensen Institute and Education Reimagined released a new paper on how value networks either help or hinder learner-centered models. In the 1920s, an educator named Helen Parkhurst set out to create a new instructional model to correct shortcomings in the relatively new system of age-graded public schools.

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Open Innovation EU

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Over a week ago, I gave a TED talk about the role of simulation games in higher education and how they could disrupt the education system as we know it. Below, you’ll find the video, the slides I used and the full transcript of the text. 7 Billion Universities | Jan Spruijt | TEDxVenlo.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

and a lot more people are asking ‘How do I put this into my product so my board of directors is happy?’” — Irhum Shafkat, Class Disrupted Podcast If you’re an education leader, you’re probably feeling the AI buzz…or pressure. If you like insights on the future of education, follow for more.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 12, 2023

What’s surprised many, however, is how sticky the education technology has become as schools have reopened. In Disrupting Class , we wrote that when most organizations (in all sectors) confront a new technology, their initial instinct is to try and deploy it to do the things for which their existing model is already optimized.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 2, 2023

Personal tutelage has been around for centuries, but it’s a form of education that hasn’t been equitably distributed. These disruptive technologies are supplementing and scaling the impact of great mentors and instruction so that their expertise can be available to every student, not just a few.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Make no mistake, the pandemic disrupted business. The world has endured 3 massive economic disruptions in the first 2 decades of the 21st century, including the dotcom bust and 9/11, the Great Recession of 2008, and the current pandemic-caused economic devastation. Is disruption itself the new normal?

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Christensen Institute

MAY 11, 2023

I can’t count the number of times people at an education conference have approached me and said something to the effect of, “But how do we transform the education system?” Ever since I wrote Disrupting Class in 2008, I’ve been publicly in favor of transforming education, not merely reforming it (although I do work in both spheres).

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Christensen Institute

JULY 25, 2023

These are interesting times on the frontiers of K–12 education. are using the open plains outside the world of district, charter, and private independent schools to pioneer new approaches to education. This is why incumbent organizations fail at disruptive innovation. Christensen called its value network.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Whether you actively seek to disrupt yourself, your team, and your organisation to effect sustainable success in the new year, or not, we all need to face, adapt and learn from the range of challenging disruptive events that impacted us in the past 12 months. We have all been challenged by disruption.

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ImagineNation

JULY 5, 2020

Connecting with a diverse range of my coaching and consulting clients over the past few weeks, has seriously deepened my understanding of the impact of disruption and adversity, on our stress levels and neurology, and the importance of leading and managing these factors, from both the business and the human perspective.

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 2, 2022

As the pandemic accelerated growth in the online education space, major accrediting organizations and exam boards turned their attention to online learning and to experienced online schools, like King’s InterHigh , to source expertise and partnership. Accreditations by EdExcel, Pearson, and Cambridge International soon followed.

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Daniel Burrus

JUNE 2, 2021

During this unique period of technology-driven transformation, the education sector has so far been slow to embrace the power of digital tools that can be used to accelerate learning. Gamification also facilitates a social element to education, which is desperately needed as the world becomes more virtual.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

In my last post , I pointed out that microschools show some of the telltale signs of disruptive innovation. But whether they ultimately prove disruptive to conventional schooling hinges on a few factors beyond the analysis presented in that post. Nonetheless, most families today don’t choose microschools.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 10, 2023

Amidst the tectonic shifts that may be on the global horizon, there’s a comparatively smaller phenomenon brewing in US K-12 education. What characteristics make them potentially disruptive? But whether they will follow a disruptive trajectory and grow to become mainstream alternatives to conventional schools is an open question.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 12, 2023

For decades, higher education was defined by rankings lists, with those at the bottom scurrying to catch up to those at the top. But the tumult of COVID seems to have accelerated the technological disruption that has long been taking place in higher ed, and, in this wake, traditional rankings seem closer to irrelevance than ever.

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 3, 2023

Collaboration between different generations leads to increased innovation, creativity in problem solving, positive disruption, and ultimately a significant impact on the industry. Resolving the Fear of Change with Educational Collaboration In 2021, we began to face a phenomenon known as the Great Resignation. Be an educator.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 20, 2022

Of all industries, this one is one that has to be anticipatory in both how they manufacture items, and in foreseeing disruptions and change long before they create problems. The adoption of tele-education, remote instruction, online learning and the gamification of training and education will advance rapidly.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 4, 2022

Advancing towards entrepreneurial initiatives in the educational and medical sectors. ? Society Disruptions. The Industrial Revolution has disrupted human development, as a result analysts have been searching for ways to help business production, and economic sectors cope. Blog Subscrition Here Email*. Tackle Challenges.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 5, 2022

At the end of each piece, we ask one of our education researchers to weigh in on what Theories of Disruptive Innovation have to say about the innovation. On Monday, April 4th, more than 200 superintendents, education policymakers, futurists, workforce, and university leaders toured 11 Cajon Valley Schools as part of The ASU+GSV Summit.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Removed from the habit of traditional schooling, increasing numbers of families are opting for alternative forms of education for their children. That’s the conclusion of newly released research by Tyton Partners, an education consultancy. The research shows that districts’ declining enrollments are not abating.

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IdeaSpies

APRIL 28, 2019

By Alexander Roche Founder and Principal Educational Technologist for online learning infrastructure and services company Androgogic servicing Higher Education, VET, K12, corporate and government markets with over 1 million learners on Androgogic hosted systems. .

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In recent years, multiple studies looking at economic mobility , friendship circles , and adults’ job, education, and housing networks , have revealed a consistent “connection premium” enjoyed by college grads. With college, the research suggests, comes connection. Most colleges aren’t shy about marketing themselves as hubs of connection.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 7, 2022

At the end of each piece, we ask one of our education researchers to weigh in on what Theories of Disruptive Innovation have to say about the innovation. Education has no shortage of challenges. Stay tuned! We aim to have one “Innovation in action” piece each month! Done well, the results of CBE can be impressive.

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Matthew May

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

And there’s been a flurry of activity in management literature circles, focused on debunking Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation. The Undoing of Disruption , by Evan Goldstein in The Chronicle of Higher Education.). How Useful is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In this blog, we’ll share some of the most highly rated books about learning how to learn. Award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey’s guide to learning sifts through decades of education research to understand the truth about how our brains absorb and retain information. Find it on Amazon.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 27, 2022

As COVID-19 began wreaking havoc on schools and sowing devastation for students, educators, and their communities, one of the common early rally cries from educators was “we must not return to normal.”. When talking to K-12 education leaders, this framework can feel overwhelming and even impossible. Click To Tweet.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 14, 2022

Over the last two and a half years, if there was a glass-half-full way of looking at COVID-19’s effect on education, it was to consider how the challenges created by the pandemic might also catalyze innovation. But to the dismay of innovation optimists, education hasn’t been changed much by the pandemic.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 26, 2022

As thousands of educators, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered at the recent ASU+GSV Summit, a growing number recognized both the need and opportunity for educational innovation in developing countries, particularly for the over 250 million children who lack access to schools. The highlights were: 4.2

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Jeffrey Phillips

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For many years, in writing this blog, and in leading innovation projects for my clients, I tried to advocate for the benefits of innovation. We've educated generations of managers and executives to make safe, small bets. After all, as the saying goes, sell the sizzle, not the steak. I'm not so sure that logic holds any more.

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