Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education: Why business schools should be well placed to respond

Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education:Why business schools should be well placed to respond

Professor Jeremy B Williams Director

Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable EnterpriseGriffith University

Brisbane21 February 2014

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Disruptive Innovation

The technological dimension

MOOCs … coming to a university near you

“The world of MOOCs is creating a competition that will force every professor to improve his or her pedagogy or face an online competitor … When outstanding becomes so easily available, average is over.”

Thomas L. Friedman

The economic dimension

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Growth in global higher ed international enrolments will decline from 5-6% to 1.4% annually in 2020 as demand in the developed world slows and supply in emerging economies increases

“Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you think they could”

Lawrence Summers

unlikely

The pedagogical dimension

Mainstream the

participatory

flexible

authentic

Multi-modal in format: catering to different learning styles and different life styles

Learner centric: student as consumer and producer of knowledge

Assessment of learning grounded in reality: outcome driven learning; learning that lasts beyond the test

The new learning model

Onefully digitised

Curriculum

Oneset of

Learning

Outcomes

MultiplePedagogies

Student

Choice… lifestyle;

learning style

F2Fon

campus

F2Fwebinar

Online

asynchronous

delivery

Intensive

delivery

blogs

wikis

Streamed

Audio

Discussion

Forum

Streamed

Video

Librarian

BlendedLearningAdvisor

CurriculumConsultant

Research Assistant

Junior Faculty Adjunct

FacultyJunior Faculty

EducationalDesigner

Senior Faculty

Summary

Reduced public funding

Downward pressure on price

Consumers more discerning about ROI

Tipping point looming

‘Retrofit’ and speed to market is critical

Online Education in the Asian Century: The Australian OpportunitySpeech to the Online Education Forum Brisbane, 17 October 2012

Rt Hon Andrew Robb, Minister for Trade and Investment

Has argued Australia should have 10 million international students in 10 years (from <700,000)

“Education is a key part of the next wave of microeconomic reform that will boost productivity and innovation and ensure Australia’s prosperity in the decades ahead. Online and electronic education have a key role to play in this reform.”

“The one-size-fits-all approach has held our tertiary education sector back. The emerging online technology and innovation facilitates a progression to policies that focus on competency and mastery, allowing students to accelerate or consolidate, making the most of their time.”

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