April 2012
Too many products fail because companies don’t understand the job their customers are trying to do. Read about how AlphaSmart nailed the job for elementary school teachers and scaled across the country.
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February 2012
What can the K-12 sector learn from WGU about how to set up an information system for a competency-based model? Read this case study to find out.
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This volume offers profound insight into the values and vision of tomorrow’s leaders, and inspiration and ideas for all aspiring leaders who hope to lead change in the world.
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Follow Sentara Healthcare in Virginia as it prepares for significant changes in how health care will be delivered and priced in the future. Pilots focusing on chronic disease management, bundled payments for procedures, ...
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Why have select integrated health systems outpaced their peers across nearly all quality and cost measures? The Christensen Institute has set out to answer this question by identifying the critical factors and decisions ...
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This case study explores the future of teaching by looking at how one online school, Advanced Academics, has rethought the current teaching model in a radical–and liberating–way.
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July 2011
Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton M. Christensen and Henry J. Eyring decipher how universities can find innovative, less costly ways of pe...
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Online learning has the potential to transform the nation’s education system into a student-centric one. But currently the vast majority of policy does not reward operators for moving toward this potential. This policy...
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How does blended learning look in the trenches? What tools and policies are making it work? This 178-page white paper reveals 40 organizations that are early blended-learning pioneers and the technology that is leading t...
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Over the past several years, Grand Valley Health Plan of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has risen to enviable heights – ranking consistently among the nation’s ten best commercial plans and HMOs by U.S. News & World Report,...
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For-profits and nonprofits both have a place in delivering quality education. Education policies should define the desired outcomes from government spending without specifying the process used to achieve those outcomes.
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Having drawn significant attention recently for being a model co-op health care system, Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative is quick to point out that being a co-op hasn’t been among the most important factors in bu...
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