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. The prediction was based on the data available at that time tracking the adoption of online courses. Key points. Click To Tweet.

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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. Roughly 70% of students took at least one online course in 2021–22.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Navigating a Disruptive Business Environment In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven landscape, businesses are frequently faced with disruptions that can significantly impact their operations and long-term viability. Recognizing the early signs of these disruptions is key to responding effectively.

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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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Christensen Institute

APRIL 25, 2023

Is it a disruptive innovation? Disruptive Innovation Disruptive innovations make products and services more accessible and affordable, thereby making them available to a larger population. As ChatGPT gains knowledge and popularity, an essential question to answer is, ”What is the disruptive potential of ChatGPT?”

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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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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

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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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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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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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. With CBE, students understand how the competencies they master are preparing them for their next course and ultimately their next job.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.

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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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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 3, 2017

A central component of the Anticipatory Organization model is disruption—more specifically, how Anticipatory Organizations and individuals can look at disruption and see enormous opportunity. If you’re the kind of business leader who doesn’t shy away from opportunity, you may not have to wait for the next big disruption.

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IdeaSpies

APRIL 28, 2019

This data includes completion rates, engagement, time, course results and grades which will all be congregated into reports conducted by the LMS. The LMS is a cloud-based system which stores information accessible to all staff and allows you to easily collate data and measure the effectiveness of the program. Deliver content instantly.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Why take a course on innovation? List of courses. This is a round-up of short-term online courses for decision-makers who oversee driving innovation in their respective organizations. Course duration : 9 weeks. Course highlights. Innovation Management: Winning in the age of disruption. Course highlights.

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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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hackerearth

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Why take a course on innovation? List of courses. This is a round-up of short-term online courses for decision-makers who oversee driving innovation in their respective organizations. Course duration : 9 weeks. Course highlights. Innovation Management: Winning in the age of disruption. Course highlights.

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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. The flight from public school districts that started while schools were closed isn’t reversing course. The research shows that districts’ declining enrollments are not abating.

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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

JUNE 8, 2022

But let’s take that argument further: why do so many colleges and universities fail to recognize the learning that a student brings from their other learning experiences, even if that learning occurred outside of a higher education setting? Saving students time and money is also a win for institutions.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 14, 2018

Well, a great deal of its power comes from blending diversity with resources and education. If you start putting some real money (and time) into testing out new concepts by gathering feedback, developing new prototypes, and combining ideas, you might get more disruptive (and profitable) ideas to grow in your own organization.

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Daniel Burrus

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

We live in an amazing era of technology-driven transformation that’s redefining how we sell, market, communicate, collaborate, innovate, train, and educate—all in an amazingly short period of time. Will technology disrupt my business to the point of closing it? Use Technology to Educate Employees. Personalized Training.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. Of course, not all businesses go the accelerator route. Including Higher Education in Professional Innovation. Take a corporate-led accelerator, for example.

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Daniel Burrus

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Communication was a huge obstacle for the education industry at the start of the pandemic. Some are hybrid, some remain fully remote, several are open five days a week, and all are met with contention from parents, students, and educators in one way or another based on their decisions due to poor communication. Certainty Is the Answer.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As such, it would be natural to regard both education and innovation as mutually compatible. This is just a short list of some of the greatest innovations that have been made within institutions of higher education. However, in education we are yet to see a pervasive adoption of the necessary digital communication technology.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 5, 2021

leadership as a birthright, as a matter of course. The chase for unicorns, fast scale, disrupting existing and constantly reiterating what is successful into the next version. Of course, having companies like Apple, Tesla, or whoever building on monopolies or technology prowess is great.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

This is just a short list of some of the greatest innovations that have been made within institutions of higher education. Communication has evolved profoundly over the last 20 years, and we continue to see disruptive technologies and services that change the way we think about information. Innovation Managed.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

This is just a short list of some of the greatest innovations that have been made within institutions of higher education. Communication has evolved profoundly over the last 20 years, and we continue to see disruptive technologies and services that change the way we think about information. Innovation Managed.

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New Markets Advisors

MAY 17, 2018

With the insights I’ve since gained at New Markets, I’d like to examine the University of Central Asia (UCA) through the lens of disruptive innovation and Jobs to Be Done, two concepts popularized by Clayton Christensen, the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. The current university system is being disrupted, and this is only the beginning.

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Business and Tech

AUGUST 6, 2021

Approximately 70 percent of organizations currently leveraging cloud services plan to expand these investments as we attempt to move on from COVID-related disruptions, according to forecasts from research firm Gartner. Additionally, IT spending overall is shifting focus to cloud.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers. In some ways, this use of online learning could be a classic case of a disruptive innovation, which begins as a primitive innovation. She cited A.P. Calculus and Latin as examples.

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IdeaSpies

MAY 24, 2019

This data includes completion rates, engagement, time, course results and grades which will all be congregated into reports conducted by the LMS. The LMS is a cloud-based system which stores information accessible to all staff and allows you to easily collate data and measure the effectiveness of the program.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 24, 2022

Horwitz detailed her study of the relationship between religious upbringing and educational outcomes among teenagers. For education leaders, studies like these merit a wider lens on what’s needed to drive more equitable postsecondary access and success among different subgroups. she writes. A broader lens on systems of social support.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 27, 2023

But a major body of work happening in K–12 education today boils down to organizational change. Competency-based education? Learner-centered education? None of these ideas for improving education make a difference for students unless they are woven into the fabric of schools. High-dosage tutoring? Blended learning?

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 26, 2015

In 1983, I identified digital disruption as one of twenty technology-driven Hard Trends that would increasingly shape the future at an exponential rate, and at the same time drive economic value creation. Today, as more and more industries and businesses become disrupted, it is important to understand that digital disruption happens in waves.

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