Innovative University Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out

Name: Innovative University Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
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ISBN: 9781118063484

ISBN-10: 1118063481

ISBN-13: 9781118063484

Edition: 2011

Authors: Clayton M. Christensen, Henry J. Eyring, Donald Grout, Clayton M. Christensen, Henry J. Eyring

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Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring, building on what Christensen has done for business, healthcare, and K-12 education, apply Christensen's model of disruptive innovation to higher education. Unlike the many doom and gloom books that have come out recently, they offer a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change and find new models for the future. Through an intriguing examination of the histories and current transformations of the authors' two very different university homes--Harvard and BYU-Idaho--and through other stories of innovation in higher education, Eyring and Christensen decipher how universities…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 8/12/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.10" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Ripe for Disruption-and Innovation



Reframing the Higher Education Crisis



The Educational Innovator's Dilemma: Threat of Danger, Reasons for Hope



The Great American University



Puritan College



Charles Eliot, Father of American Higher Education



Pioneer Academy



Revitalizing Harvard College



Struggling College



The Drive for Excellence



Four-Year Aspirations in Rexburg



Harvard's Growing Power and Profile



Staying Rooted



Ripe for Disruption



The Weight of the DNA



Even at Harvard



Vulnerable Institutions



Disruptive Competition



A New Kind of University



A Unique University Design



Getting Started



Raising Quality



Lowering Cost



Serving More Students



Genetic Reengineering



New Models



Students and Subjects



Scholarship



New DNA



Change and the Indispensable University


Notes


The Authors


Innosight Institute


Index