
The goal of this section is to provide a review of the key concepts of disruptive innovation and apply them to higher education. I will cover the definition of disruptive innovation, sustaining innovations, low-end disruption and new market disruption. I will also provide examples of disruptive innovation in higher education and discuss where in the adoption cycle various aspects of the higher education market are.
The goal of this section is to provide an understanding of what's driving change in traditional higher education. It will look at Baumol's cost disease and other underlying factors. I will also use Porter's Five Forces Model to explain why the higher education industry is being radically transformed. I conclude with recommendations of sustaining innovations that traditional higher education institutions can make.
The goal of this section is to provide an overview of the basic economics of online education. It will also explain why consolidation is a driving force both in online education and its effect on traditional higher education. I will also examine the for-profit business model, since, for market reasons, most online education follows similar business models. I will conclude in providing recommendations for strategy in online marketing.
This section looks at the growth of tertiary education in emerging economies as there will be 137 million new students per year in developing countries by 2025. This section presents an overview of Bottom of the Pyramid strategies to serve this new market. Then this section uses Scenario Planning to example a potential future of higher education in 2035 and how to best respond.
This section looks at how higher education is being unbundled and new models for rebunding higher education including Western Governors, LinkedIn, Code Academies and Vocational Qualifications.
This section will use unbundling concepts and Porter's Five Forces model to explain why there has been radical pressure on the faculty market. I will relate this to the larger trend of automation and provide an overview of strategic responses from other industries being automated. I will then present a reimagined role of faculty as faculty-entrepreneurs and provide recommendations for adjusting to these changes.
This course provides the latest expertly curated materials on this topic by a university president focused on disruptive innovation who spent years developing them.
I've tried to curate the "best of the best" of materials in this field including: unbundling universities, unbundling faculty, online education, emerging markets, Base of the Pyramid strategy, Lean Startup for education, Blue Ocean Strategy for education, accreditation, for profits and MOOCs and examining implications for specific markets like faith-based/Christian higher education. I provide a summary of "Cliff's Notes" on each topic in a brief video, and have links to the top videos and bibliography on each topic. While most people will take this course individually, this course is designed to also be used by individuals or as a "flipped classroom" discussion among students or leaders at your institution to discuss these materials after reviewing them.
I am the President of City Vision University where we are bringing radically affordable education through a $2,000 associate's degree and a $5,000 bachelor's degree. I previously co-founded MIT's Internet Telephony Consortium with one of the fathers of the Internet (David Clark) focused on disruption in the telecommunications industry. Before spending the past 20 years living with and serving the poor with disruptive educational technologies, I worked as a consultant to Sprint, venture capitalist and internet startups.
I just finished reading tens of thousands of pages and hundreds of articles and videos as a part of my doctoral dissertation. I have literally put thousands of hours of work into the materials in this course just as if I were publishing a book. I am providing it for free because I want to see change happen in this industry.
My hope is that you could use this course materials to be a change agent to bring innovation to your institution.
You can also find versions of this course on: iTunes University, YouTube and Slideshare.