Required Text
K-12 educators:
Horn, M. B., & Staker, H. (2014). Blended: Using disruptive innovation to improve schools. John Wiley & Sons.
Business Focus:
Christensen, C. M. (2013). The innovator’s dilemma: when new technologies cause great firms to fail. Harvard Business Review Press.
Higher Ed
Christensen C. M., Horn M. B., Soares L., & L. Caldera. (2011). Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/report/2011/02/08/9034/disrupting- college/
Week 1
Read Full book or article related to your discipline:
Horn, M. B., & Staker, H. (2014). Blended: Using disruptive innovation to improve schools. John Wiley & Sons.
OR
Christensen, C. M. (2013). The innovator’s dilemma: when new technologies cause great firms to fail. Harvard Business Review Press.
OR
Christensen C. M., Horn M. B., Soares L., & L. Caldera. (2011). Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/report/2011/02/08/9034/disrupting- college/
Week 2
2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, & 2010 Horizon Report – view from http://www.nmc.org/publication-type/horizon-report/ Select the report type appropriate to your interests or organization.
Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report
Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends Report
Meeker’s 2014 Internet Trends Report
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2015
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2014
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2013
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2012
The list of readings for this module was set up to be purposely overwhelming because you need to be aware of just how much information is available and, more importantly, you need to learn to glean what is valuable and what is not. If you have been following educational technology literature for many years, then you will not be overwhelmed with all this reading, because you will have read each of the reports when they were published. If you are new to the discipline, then you have a bit of catching up to do.
Ideally, you do want to read all the material, but given the time constraints of this course and the fact that you all have lives, I suggest that you look to your class colleagues to share the load of reading and devise a plan to distribute the reading load and to at least look at the following in detail.
At minimum, read the most recent years of the Horizon Report, and then read the Executive summaries, Technologies to Watch, Critical Challenges and Significant Trends sections of the earlier reports. Look for patterns and also critically assess how accurate the earlier reports have been. Compare the predictions and claims of the Horizon Reports with that data in the Internet Trends Report (at minimum, use the report summary). Read the most recent ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, and review the Key Findings of the previous two studies to identify patterns that will point to disruptive innovations and compare to the Horizon and Meeker reports.
Week 3
Multiple case studies are related resources are provided and linked through the Course BB site.
Week 4
Digital StoryTelling Cookbook (Accessible from Course BB site)
Week 5
Review
