Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education: 5 Phenomena to Notice

Interesting article; I will be following this discussion and posting related articles.
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From Contact North / Contact Nord Online Learning News:

Commentary: Strengthening Ontario's Centres of Creativity, Innovation, and Knowledge

On June 27, 2012, the Honourable Glen Murray, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities released a discussion paper titled Strengthening Ontario's Centres of Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge (Strengthening) on ideas for post-secondary education in Ontario. Strengthening calls for no less than transformation of post-secondary education in Ontario and is bound to trigger sector-wide thinking, dialogue, and action.

The Post-secondary Sector Essentially Powers Ontario’s Knowledge Economy.

By equating our college and university sectors as Ontario’s centres of creativity, innovation, and knowledge, Strengthening pays our 24 public colleges and 20 public universities the high compliment they are indeed due...

The big question is whether the changes that will unfold will be changes of our choosing, or accidents that are the unintended consequences of technology disruption in a strategic vacuum.

Let’s set the stage for a forward discussion by putting forth the proposition that following five concurrent phenomena are now disrupting post-secondary education and will, in our opinion, lead to transformational change.
If this is true, the big question is whether the changes that will unfold will be of our choosing, or accidents that are the unintended consequences of technology disruption in a strategic vacuum....

 Contact North identifies the following five phenomena affecting post-secondary education:
1. Online Education
2. MOOCs
3. ePortfolio
4. Outcomes Assessment
5. Course Credit Aggregation

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