The innovative university: changing the dna of higher education from the inside out
Christensen, Clayton M.Eyring, Henry J.
Jossey-Bass (San Francisco, 2011) (eng) English9781118063484UnknownUnknownUNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES--UNITED STATES;EDUCATIONAL CHANGE--UNITED STATES;Includes index; The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring decipher how universities can find innovative, less costly ways of performing their uniquely valuable functions.
Offers new ways forward to deal with curriculum, faculty issues, enrollment, retention, graduation rates, campus facility usage, and a host of other urgent issues in higher education
Discusses a strategic model to ensure economic vitality at the traditional university
Contains novel insights into the kind of change that is necessary to move institutions of higher education forward in innovative ways
This book uncovers how the traditional university survives by breaking with tradition, but thrives by building on what it's done best.
Physical dimension
xxx, 475 pages24 cmillustrations
Summary / review / table of contents
-Preface vii
-Acknowledgments
-Introduction: Ripe for Disruption—and Innovation
-Part One: Reframing the Higher Education Crisis
-Part Two: The Great American University
-Part Three: Ripe for Disruption
-Part Four: A New Kind of University
-Part Five: Genetic Reengineering
-Notes
-The Authors
-Innosight Institute
-Index