Real innovation isn’t common in higher education, especially at the most prestigious schools.
They are presumed to have gotten where they are because they have the formula right. Their nearest competitors try to be more like them, not to find novel ways of outdoing them. In an academic world where nothing succeeds like success, innovation is rare because it is seen as risky, even foolhardy.
But change is coming to higher education.
For-profit universities, which have nothing to lose in the prestige game, are testing powerful new learning technologies and operating models.
They’ve made mistakes, and they’re paying the price in onerous new regulations. But those regulations will make them stronger, more focused on helping students to learn and graduate with valuable capabilities. The for-profits will not only have to deliver these outcomes, as the best traditional institutions do, they’ll have to document them.
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Author: Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring
