Li Yuan (JISC CETIS)Stephen Powell

Disruptive innovation and OERs/Open Education in HE

Institute for Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton

Disruptive Innovation Theory Sustaining innovation – to improve the existing system.

The change is typically slow and tends to result in

marginal improvements.

Disruptive innovation - to create an entirely new

market, typically by lowering price or designing for a

different set of consumers or different needs of existing

customers.

(Christensen, 1997)

Potential Customer Groups

Non-consumers – lack for the ability, wealth, or

access to a product or service

Undershot Customers – consume a product or

service but are frustrated with its limitations

Overshot Customers – stop paying for further

improvements to a product or service.

Undershot Customers

Undershot Customers

Overshot CustomersOvershot Customers

Noncustomer /Nonconsuming Context

The progression of sustaining & disruptive innovation

Time

Active Disruption Begins

Sustaining innovation

Disruptive innovation

Definition of Open Educational Resources

“Digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators,

students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching,

learning and research”

OECD, 2007

OERs and implications for HE

OER/Open Education Initiatives

MIT OpenCourseWare

UK OERs

OER/Open Education Initiatives

“The UK must have a core of open access learning

resources organised in a coherent way to support on-

line and blended learning by all higher education

institutions and to make it more widely available in

non-HE environments”.

(Cooke, 2008)

Support innovation in HE

OERs and implications for HE

OERs and implications for HE – Content as infrastructure

Higher Education

OERs/OpenEd

Curriculum

AccreditationLearners’Support

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

OER/Open Education Initiatives

P2P U

OER/Open Education Initiatives

OERu

OER/Open Education Initiatives

The OER university concept. Adapted from Taylor 2007.

OER/Open Education InitiativesAn Open Course at Bolton: Design learning for 21 century

Noncustomer /Nonconsuming Context

Business Model Innovation in Institutions for OERs/Open Education

Time

Undershot Customers

Undershot Customers

Overshot Customers Overshot Customers

Business models for adopting OERs/Open Education in HE

Sustaining innovation

Disruptive innovation

Developing a Sustainable OER ecosystem

InstitutionsInstitutionsLearning

communityLearning

communityIndividuals Individuals

Sustaining /disruptive innovationsSustaining /disruptive innovations

Developing a sustainable OER ecosystem

Create,

Use,

reuse,

remix…Strategies and policy,

New business model

Learning support

Accreditation …

Community of practice,

sharing, …

Supporting formal and informal education

OERs/OpenEd

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