Q&A with Christensen and Eyring on their new book: "The Innovative University"

Forbes:

Could you give our readers a short crash course to the main ideas of your book?

"The Innovative University" makes the case that a "disruptive" technology, online learning, is bringing fundamental change to higher education. Traditional universities and colleges are vulnerable because their model of education was already becoming too expensive for many students. Most young students will continue to want the campus-based learning experience, but they will expect to pay less and to enjoy a combination of face-to-face and online instruction. Institutions that don't provide a hybrid will see declining enrollments. Most institutions will also have to focus more narrowly on student instruction, rather than emulating the large research universities, such as Harvard. Making these changes will be hard, given the strength of higher education tradition and the autonomy of faculty members. However, we believe that it can be done.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 24, 2011 3:57 AM
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