{"id":5950,"date":"2014-06-16T07:52:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2014-06-16T07:52:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T13:52:39","slug":"disruption-theory-what-the-gospel-of-innovation-gets-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5950","title":{"rendered":"Disruption Theory: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2014\/06\/23\/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all&#038;mobify=0\">Jill LePore<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In \u201cThe Innovative University,\u201d written with Henry J. Eyring, who used to work at the Monitor Group, a consulting firm co-founded by Michael Porter, Christensen subjected Harvard, a college founded by seventeenth-century theocrats, to his case-study analysis. \u201cStudying the university\u2019s history,\u201d Christensen and Eyring wrote, \u201cwill allow us to move beyond the forlorn language of crisis to hopeful and practical strategies for success.\u201d On the basis of this research, Christensen and Eyring\u2019s recommendations for the disruption of the modern university include a \u201cmix of face-to-face and online learning.\u201d The publication of \u201cThe Innovative University,\u201d in 2011, contributed to a frenzy for Massive Open Online Courses, or moocs, at colleges and universities across the country, including a collaboration between Harvard and M.I.T., which was announced in May of 2012. Shortly afterward, the University of Virginia\u2019s panicked board of trustees attempted to fire the president, charging her with jeopardizing the institution\u2019s future by failing to disruptively innovate with sufficient speed; the vice-chair of the board forwarded to the chair a Times column written by David Brooks, \u201cThe Campus Tsunami,\u201d in which he cited Christensen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill LePore: In \u201cThe Innovative University,\u201d written with Henry J. Eyring, who used to work at the Monitor Group, a consulting firm co-founded by Michael Porter, Christensen subjected Harvard, a college founded by seventeenth-century theocrats, to his case-study analysis. \u201cStudying the university\u2019s history,\u201d Christensen and Eyring wrote, \u201cwill allow us to move beyond the forlorn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5951,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions\/5951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}