When bad teaching is better for students Michelle R. Weise, PhD When bad teaching is better for students At the 16th annual FNESP (Fórum Nacional do Ensino Superior Privado), the largest gathering of all of the private universities in Brazil, I had the […] Oct 1, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Hey, Princeton: Consider Competencies Michelle R. Weise, PhD Hey, Princeton: Consider Competencies This post was first published on the Next Gen Learning blog. With A’s doled out in almost half of all undergraduate courses—compared to only […] Sept 3, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Modularization: Breaking the currency of higher education Michelle R. Weise, PhD Modularization: Breaking the currency of higher education Michelle R. Weise discusses how online competency-based education programs are best poised to offer modularized curricula that can be tailored to different industries. Modularization of […] Aug 19, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Disruption in higher ed is growing, but not instantaneous Michael B. Horn Disruption in higher ed is growing, but not instantaneous Meg Evans, a former research assistant at the Clayton Christensen Institute and now the social innovation manager at Udemy, and I coauthored this piece. In […] Aug 14, 2014 Michael B. Horn
Academic Inertia: The innovator’s dilemma in higher education Michelle R. Weise, PhD Academic Inertia: The innovator’s dilemma in higher education Michelle R. Weise discusses the innovator’s dilemma and how traditional colleges and universities are fundamentally constrained by their multiple business models and therefore cannot respond […] Aug 12, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Adding “modularization” to the higher education vernacular Michelle R. Weise, PhD Adding “modularization” to the higher education vernacular Even before MIT released its 213-page report earlier this week on how the future of higher education hinges on modules of learning as opposed to […] Aug 8, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Stop looking for disruption. It’s already begun. Michelle R. Weise, PhD Stop looking for disruption. It’s already begun. Michelle R. Weise explains how the emergence of disruptive innovations often don’t entail the immediate downfall of incumbent organizations. Disruption is a process—not an event. […] Aug 5, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Hire education: A new trend that high schools should pay attention to Julia Freeland Fisher Hire education: A new trend that high schools should pay attention to Last week our Institute’s Michelle R. Weise and Clayton Christensen published a new book, Hire Education, on a key trend in higher education: the emergence […] Aug 4, 2014 Julia Freeland Fisher
The dark horse of online education Michelle R. Weise, PhD The dark horse of online education Michelle R. Weise discusses why she and Clayton M. Christensen decided to focus on online competency-based education as the topic of their latest mini-book, Hire […] Aug 1, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Move over MOOCs, it’s online, competency time Michael B. Horn Move over MOOCs, it’s online, competency time When massive open online courses, or MOOCs, took the world by storm in 2012, all too often the description of them was accompanied by an […] July 31, 2014 Michael B. Horn
Cultural fit: When fitting in is more important than ever Michelle R. Weise, PhD Cultural fit: When fitting in is more important than ever Cultural fit. @rwmichelle on why 1st-gen college students “hire” #highered: http://www.christenseninstitute.org/cultural-fit/ Click To Tweet For the one in six who are first-generation students at four-year [... July 25, 2014 Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Unbundling and re-bundling in higher education Michael B. Horn Unbundling and re-bundling in higher education With the explosion of online learning, a disruptive innovation, there has been significant attention paid to the likely unbundling of higher education (see Michael Staton’s AEI […] July 10, 2014 Michael B. Horn