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Saturday, August 10, 2002
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0240.pdf The Intellectual Supermarket Ada Demb In his landmark work The Sources of Innovation, Eric von Hippel spoke about the inhibitions that prevent innovation: “Subjects who use an object or see it used in a familiar way are strongly blocked from using that object in a novel way. Furthermore, the more recently objects or problem-solving strategies have been used in a familiar way, the more difficult subjects find it to employ them in a novel way.”1 A prime example of this dilemma involves technology-based innovation in higher education. Although there has been an explosion in the use of technology, many of the applications remain captive within current industry structures and assumptions. As long as the problemsolving continues to be defined in familiar terms—how to be more costefficient, how to make the best use of land-grant institutions, how to understand the impacts on existing institutions—higher education is unlikely to generate radical new approaches for using technology....
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