innovation in higher education 2015
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Where is Innovation in Higher Education?Joel A. Kline, Ph.D., APRLebanon Valley College
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Name some of the most disruptive* innovations in education and specifically in Higher Education?
*alternatively, consider the terms revolutionary, groundbreaking, pioneering, inventive, etc.
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Let’s Examine 100 Years of Progress
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1913
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2013
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1913
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1910
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Except for the sepia tone, don’t the two classrooms – separated by 100 years - look pretty much the same?
+Framing InnovationIn Higher Education
+Anecdotal Examples of K-12 Failure
Keyboarding (learning to type!) as a technology subject – bureaucratic determination of lowest common denominator of a subject
Early Laptop/Tablet Academies –channel far exceeded content
Internet Access – broadband to every K-12 school in America – But no one knew what to do with it - a solution seeking a problem
PowerPoint's Pervasive Penchant for Preposterous Presentations – starting with the technology rather than the content
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According to a 2013 survey from the Chronicle of Higher Education, both faculty and presidents of US Colleges believe that faculty should play an important role in driving change in education.
However, both faculty and college presidents believe that politicians are the primary group driving change in US Higher Education.
Who Innovates?
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Has technology failed Education?
+Innovator’s Dilemma Summary
Themes: Sustaining vs. Disruptive Companies typically overshoot customer needs
Principles: Customers usually define needs and direction Small markets are not attractive to big companies Markets that do not exist...cannot be analyzed Capabilities define disabilities Technology supply does not always equal demand
+S Curve Basics
+Cost and ProductivityIn U.S. Higher Education
+Is there a cost disease in EDU?
+Baumol’s Cost Disease
Theory: Salaries in jobs that have experienced no increase in labor productivity rise because of a rise in salaries in other jobs which did experience labor productivity growth. Counter to classical economics theories that connect
wages to productivity changes. Higher Ed must compete for employees (against)
employers that did see a rise in productivity. Essentially, rise in faculty salaries are not the result of
productivity gains, but the gains of productivity in other sectors outside Higher Education.
+Current InnovationIn Higher Education
+Are these things innovative?
Content Open Courseware Khan Academy iTunes U
Classroom Smart Maker Flipped
Delivery Distance Education Hybrid or Blended MOOC
Validation/Accreditation Badges 3-year Degrees Gen Ed strategies
Spatial Geography Time-shifting
Community Collectivism Learning Circles (e.g.
dorm)
+What companies are driving innovation?
Minvera Singularity Straighter Line Udacity EdX Coursera Udemy iTunes
+Joel A. Kline, Ph.D., APR
Professor of Digital CommunicationsLebanon Valley College
Questions?Contact me at:[email protected]
@joelkline
+References & Credits
Slide 3: Aviation: An Introduction to the Elements of Flight
Slide 4: Dreamliner photo copyright Aldo Bidini
Slide 5: 1913 American Underslung automobile, copyright A.G. Arao, 2007
Slide 6: Porsche Cayenne from NetCarShow.com
Slide 7: Babbage Analytical Engine, Wikipedia
Slide 8: IDC image
Slide 9: Hospital room from Springfield Hospital, Springfield, VT
Slide 10: Current Hospital Room
Slide 11: Mathematics classroom from Columbia Teachers College
Slide 12: Current classroom from the IBL Architecture blog