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How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

by Clayton M. Christensen (Author), Michael B. Horn, Curtis W. Johnson (edit contributors)

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Selected as one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazine Named the "Best Human-Capital Book of 2008" by Strategy + Business magazine A crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The... read more

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  • “"At every crossway on the road that leads to the future each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past."”
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  • To succeed, disruptive technologies must be applied in applications where the alternative is nothing.
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  • teachers can serve as professional learning coaches and content architects to help individual students progress—and they can be a guide on the side, not a sage on the stage.
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  • A disruptive innovation is not a breakthrough improvement. Instead of sustaining the traditional improvement trajectory in the established plane of competition, it disrupts that trajectory by bringing to the market a product or service that actually is not as good as what companies historically had been selling.
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  • The result of these four factors—technological improvements that make learning more engaging; research advances that enable the design of student-centric software appropriate to each type of learner; the looming teacher shortage; and inexorable cost pressures—is that 10 years from the publication of this book, computer-based, student-centric learning will account for 50 percent of the 'seat miles' in U.S. secondary schools.
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  • In the language of disruption, here is what this means: unless top managers actively manage this process, their organization will shape every disruptive innovation into a sustaining innovation—one that fits the processes, values, and economic model of the existing business—because organizations cannot naturally disrupt themselves.
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  • Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.
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  • Here's how Gardner defines intelligence: The ability to solve problems that one encounters in real life. The ability to generate new problems to solve. The ability to make something or offer a service that is valued within one's culture.4
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  • In summary, the current educational system—the way it trains teachers, the way it groups students, the way the curriculum is designed, and the way the school buildings are laid out—is designed for standardization. If the United States is serious about leaving no child behind, it cannot teach its students with standardized methods.
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  • Success with disruptive innovations always originates at the simplest end of the market, typically competing against nonconsumption. Then, from that base, the technology gets better and better until, ultimately, it performs well enough that it supplants the prior approach.
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian Nobel Laureate in literature once observed, 'At every crossway on the road that leads to the future each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.'
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