Disruptive Innovation In Higher Education

Social media is defined as websites and applications used for social networking, in other words it is a way for people to interact and express themselves without being face to face. Social media has become a large part of the life of teenagers, who make up most of the population of people who are subjected to using social media in their daily lives. Many college students are faced with balancing their social lives with school and even athletics making priorities a big dilemma for them. College students in America are affected in many ways by social media whether it be their social life, their happiness, or their grades.

As technology has advanced, it has been able to bring change and benefits to different areas of society. It has also created more ways to benefit the higher education system. One important change in the higher education system is the creation of more online classes. An example is in the form of livestreaming an actual lecture to students either on a computer or a television. These courses are called MOOC’s, or massive open online courses.

With this article “Technology and the Commodification of Higher Education” published by Monthly Review Press, David Noble argues that higher education in the United States is performing like business-style education instead of nonprofit education. Higher education now makes use of technology to provide distance education, but students do not really learn from it. Therefore, students need to know that taking online classes may not the best idea to gain knowledge. Moreover, students should be aware of how their tuition fee brings distance education extra money to universities, making distance education a business.

Technology has evolved into a scientific breakthrough that has given humans the satisfaction to their needs and wants. So, how does technology enhance college students, and how is it supporting or hindering them? With the newest advancements, students have become more accessible than ever with the internet. A large positive role is being played along with the impact that is making on their educational experiences.

Computer based learning, as it stands, has plenty of disadvantages, but many in business and educational arenas remain optimistic about its future. There are two indisputable truths about computer-based learning, or e-learning. First, it will revolutionize education and second, such a future is just around the block. Educational experts agree that most types of study are not yet effective when delivered purely online, mainly because of bandwidth limitations, expensive set-up costs, continued resistance to the medium and a shortage of quality course content.

Technology in education is not a new concept, especially at the college level. Universities are encouraged to offer online courses, or as freelance journalist Chrissie Long and many other experts call them, MOOCs (massive online open courses), to reach out to more students and provide them with a more convenient style of learning (455). While MOOCs certainly have their strengths, how far should universities go? What is the future of online education? Should colleges of the future only offer online courses, or should face-to-face classes still be the primary form of education? Blended courses, though not without faults of their own, can combine the best elements of

Throughout the past decade, there has been a huge rise in social networking sites. However, since the existence of the internet, there has been some source of socializing through different mediums. Email seems to have been one of the first ways

Jon Russell once said, “Social Media presents a huge opportunity for schools, universities and other educational organizations to reach out and connect with students and prospective students”. With no doubt, social media has influenced the way students are educated today. For those of you who do not know the exact definition of social media, the social media means ways of sharing information, opinions, images, videos using the Internet, especially social networking sites. Because of the Internet, people started finding ways to socialize through social websites and exchange information. Popular social network on the Internet such as YouTube became a sensation for me ever since I became a student in college. Today social media can be used for educational purposes. The ways social media is changing education has affected how the students express themselves, behave, and interact with each other.

Disruptive innovation was a term coined by Professor Clayton Christensen (A US Scholar and Teacher) of the Harvard Business School in his 1997 book, ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma’. Professor Christensen said, in order for a business to be disruptive, it must gain a foothold in a low-end market (Christensen Institute, 2017). Disruptive innovation can be described as a specific way that smaller companies can outcompete, and probably even destroy bigger rivals in the same industry. Sometimes this could even be a corporate strategy to gain a foothold in industrial domination or a greater market share.

The paper highlights the use of innovative software and technologies in higher education system to improve the quality of education across US universities. This paper cites several related references, which would be beneficial for me as well. In addition to that, it focuses only on innovation related papers but it lacks in those paper which analyzes the public procurement of innovative products. It focuses only on the use of innovative technologies in higher education. Its evaluation methodology is good, as around six universities are interviewed on the subject and the results are compared with the data analysis of the data collected through secondary resources. Since the paper is completely based on a theoretical framework, so no theorems and proofs are present throughout the paper, while the arguments are effective and convincing as per the analysis and cross check

Disruptive Innovation Theory by Christensen (1997) is one of the important practice of strategic technology innovation. Disruptive innovation has a main focus on development of organization capabilities, developing new markets for technologies. According to Clayton Christensen the man who coined the word, disruptive innovation is a process. He sees that the process became a mechanism through which technology and services are improved with long term surviving nature of organizations. Some examples of disruptive innovations include the calculators which are portable, LCD televisions which replaced cathode ray tube televisions, skype calls revolution in telecommunication in system, Transistor radios. Theory aroused various disparities both in business and academic. Authors like Christensen, 1997, Raynor 2003, Gillbert 2003, Govindarajan and Kopalle 2006 has stated the importance of Disruptive innovation. Various strategies are developed in understanding the theory of Disruptiveness. The main aim of the Literature review is to 1) Understand the concept of disruptive innovation, implementations, 2) Challenges and barriers faced to disrupt, 3) Managing and strategic ways how an organization should implement.

Distance Learning: Emerging Technologies vs. Traditional Class Instruction High pace of life and time span has changed many aspects of learning. Distance education is new model of teaching and learning having the power to improve educational outcomes dramatically. As a result, many people are asking how to scale-up scattered, successful "islands of innovation" into universal improvements in schooling (Dede 1998). Undertaking "systemic reform" (sustained, large-scale, simultaneous innovation in curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, professional development, administration, incentives, and partnerships for learning among schools, businesses, homes, and community settings) requires policies and practices different from fostering pilot projects for small-scale educational improvement. It would include evaluative data about the program's effectiveness and costs, alternative strategies for generating resources to meet those costs, ways to involve the community in the innovation, and approaches for ensuring a positive impact on equity. New interactive media offer powerful ways of communicating this level of informational detail. What specific topic or subject area do you propose to explore? Distance learning   What is your working title? Distance learning: emerging technologies  What is the theoretical foundation for your work? These guidelines offer advice on assuring the quality and academic standards of higher education programs of study provided through distance learning. The

“Every now and then, a technology comes along that is so profound, so powerful, so universal that its impact will change everything. It will transform every institution in the world. It will create winners and losers, will change the way we do business, the way we teach our children, communicate and interact as individuals.” (Gerstner L., 1996).

In particular, Technologies will salutary the future as we know it by starting for educational skill purpose. This grant will make life assuage. With the world of online education, people will work to advance the curriculum and pass even beyond it. Students will allow to take classes online. Therefore, this allows them to be sovereign in their oeuvre. “The idea has been growing that universities will change dramatically, .Online education increasingly enabled by improvements in broadband Internet access and new mobile devices. ...Advances in the science of learning that are enabling society and researchers to look at the new education approaches...” (William). William announced that the idea of online

Education is the key to global economic growth and prosperity. For any educational institution to compete in the global market, it must invest in higher education in a manner that is productive, accountable and reactive to the contemporary needs of its population. Over the past decade, institutions of higher learning have experience a significant paradigm shift of the role of information technology. It has evolved from being solely a support function to becoming a leader in innovation for these institutions. This has allowed many to perform a system wide alignment of information technology with the institution’s larger vision and mission through developing a technology strategy.