Comments on: Deja Vu All Over Again – Blackboard Still Stuck in the Innovator’s Dilemma http://www.jonmott.com/blog/2009/07/deja-vu-all-over-again-blackboard-still-stuck-in-the-innovators-dilemma/ Musings about Academic Technology Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:42:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: marksmithers http://www.jonmott.com/blog/2009/07/deja-vu-all-over-again-blackboard-still-stuck-in-the-innovators-dilemma/comment-page-1/#comment-1080 marksmithers Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:50:01 +0000 http://www.jonmott.com/blog/?p=78#comment-1080 I couldn't agree more. I am at a loss to work out why universities seem blind to the rapidly changing modes of knowledge dissemination and informal learning that are occurring around them. It seems that only the very enlightened and maybe the smaller more agile institutions will be able to react in time. I'm not sure that the lumbering, large complex institutions will go the way of the brontosaurus in the short or medium but they will surely become increasingly irrelevant in the long term. I couldn't agree more. I am at a loss to work out why universities seem blind to the rapidly changing modes of knowledge dissemination and informal learning that are occurring around them. It seems that only the very enlightened and maybe the smaller more agile institutions will be able to react in time. I'm not sure that the lumbering, large complex institutions will go the way of the brontosaurus in the short or medium but they will surely become increasingly irrelevant in the long term.

]]> By: davidandrew http://www.jonmott.com/blog/2009/07/deja-vu-all-over-again-blackboard-still-stuck-in-the-innovators-dilemma/comment-page-1/#comment-1078 davidandrew Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:26:10 +0000 http://www.jonmott.com/blog/?p=78#comment-1078 Sounds awfully like the BB Europe I attended some years ago - the same story from BB. I think the one thing that might change BB is if they serious saw students as clients if not partners and started a dialogue directly with them. I was seriously shocked when they launched the e-portfolio for Vista without even piloting it with students, so its a long way to go.<br><br><br>And I agree with sleslie Sounds awfully like the BB Europe I attended some years ago – the same story from BB. I think the one thing that might change BB is if they serious saw students as clients if not partners and started a dialogue directly with them. I was seriously shocked when they launched the e-portfolio for Vista without even piloting it with students, so its a long way to go.

And I agree with sleslie

]]> By: sleslie http://www.jonmott.com/blog/2009/07/deja-vu-all-over-again-blackboard-still-stuck-in-the-innovators-dilemma/comment-page-1/#comment-1076 sleslie Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:11:43 +0000 http://www.jonmott.com/blog/?p=78#comment-1076 "The fundamental dilemma with the CMS as we know it today is that it is largely a course-centric, lecture-model reinforcing technology with its center of gravity in institutional efficiency and convenience. As such, it is a technology that inclines instructors and students to 'automate the past'" - this would be the CMS' fatal flaw were it not for the fact that the business logic of higher ed institutions hasn't changed either, meaning the CMS perfectly fulfills an outdated business (and teaching) model. Hence why many of us in favour of alternatives to the CMS have also taken to trying to talk with institutions about the threats on their competitive landscape (as well as the new opportunities). But just as in the case of the Christensen book you so aptly refer to, the incumbents seem either unwilling or unable to see these threats until it will likely be too late, a problem exacerbated in my country because the vast majority of post-secondary education is publicly funded, by the same people who accredit it, making the threats seem even less apparent. “The fundamental dilemma with the CMS as we know it today is that it is largely a course-centric, lecture-model reinforcing technology with its center of gravity in institutional efficiency and convenience. As such, it is a technology that inclines instructors and students to 'automate the past'” – this would be the CMS' fatal flaw were it not for the fact that the business logic of higher ed institutions hasn't changed either, meaning the CMS perfectly fulfills an outdated business (and teaching) model. Hence why many of us in favour of alternatives to the CMS have also taken to trying to talk with institutions about the threats on their competitive landscape (as well as the new opportunities). But just as in the case of the Christensen book you so aptly refer to, the incumbents seem either unwilling or unable to see these threats until it will likely be too late, a problem exacerbated in my country because the vast majority of post-secondary education is publicly funded, by the same people who accredit it, making the threats seem even less apparent.

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