Rethinking Higher Education Business Models, March 28, 2012
(www.americanprogress.org/issues/higher-education/view/) (CAP en español)
Steps Toward a Disruptive Innovation Approach to Understanding and Improving Higher Education Outcomes
Information technology’s potential to dramatically improve the performance of higher education will be realized only when new business models arise to harness it.
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Building on CAP’s previous work in “Disrupting College and Guiding Innovation in Higher Education,” this brief begins by explaining Christensen’s analytical framework. It then focuses on one component of that framework, business models, and explains some important types of them. We then explore how new higher education business models could better harness recent advances in information technology and thereby achieve dramatic improvements in learning and credentialing, research and development, and business management. Lastly, our brief examines the policy implications, especially for the federal government’s applied research budget, our objective being to help policymakers understand what works well and what has the potential to be successfully replicated on a large scale—to “go to scale.” Specifically, our policy recommendations include: ...
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Demographics of American liberals (Wikpedia:)
Liberalism also remains the dominant political ideology in academia, with 72% of full-time faculty identifying as liberal in a 2004 study.[41] The social sciences and humanities were most liberal, whereas business and engineering departments were the least liberal, though even in the business departments, liberals outnumbered conservatives 49% to 39%.
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