- Interview with Michelle R. Weise, the Executive Director of Sandbox ColLABorative, the R&D arm of strategy and innovation at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), formerly Senior Research Fellow for Higher Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation.
Michelle R. Weise, PhD - We discuss:
- Disruptive innovation with regard to education
- Moving from institution/faculty-centered to student-centered education
- Online competency-based education aligned with workforce needs
- Performance-based assessments
- Business model moving way from Carnegie (seat time) Unit
- Grade inflation and credit transfer problem
- SNHU's success with online and other schools that are spinning off online units
- LMS vs CRM solutions
- What traditional universities and incumbent LMS vendors should do in the face of disruptive innovation
- Rod's Podcasts on Disruptive Technology in Education
- RPP #19 Disruptive Technology in Education
- RPP #20 Disruptive Technology in Education II
- Disruptive Technologies in Education (Youtube)
- Reading List
- Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution
by Michelle R. Weise
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
- The Undoing of Disruption by Evan Goldstein
- The University As Ed Tech Startup: UMUC, Global Campus, Texas, and SNHU Roll Their Own by Phil Hill
- Podsafe music selection from Music Alley
- Too Long by Yael Naim, acclaimed singer/songwriter from Israel. She gained fame when her song New Soul played during Apple's Macbook Air ad campaign
Duration: 39:33
