Online Learning Update

April 19, 2012

Educational Technologies and the Changing Role of Universities

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

by Jim Barber, Australian Broadcasting Ockham’s Razor

When I first began talking about online learning around 10 years ago now, my views were not particularly controversial, a few polite questions, some half-hearted clapping, that was about it. Maybe that’s because the only people who showed up to such forums in those days were like-minded individuals and IT geeks dressed in Metallica T-shirts. But things have certainly changed in the last few years. Nowadays, whenever I speak or write about online learning there’s always someone in the audience who takes offence because they interpret my views as an attack on their professionalism or competence. I take this as evidence that online learning has now achieved the status of a disruptive technology. The term disruptive technology was first coined by Joseph Bower and Clayton Christensen some 15 years ago in a paper entitled Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/educational-technologies-and-the-changing-role-of-universities/3948822

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