The innovative university : changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out

• Main Authors: Christensen, Clayton M., 1952- (Author), Eyring, Henry J., 1963- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2011
• Subjects: vysoké školy > Spojené státy americké; vysokoškolské studium > Spojené státy americké; inovace ve vzdělávání > Spojené státy americké; universities and colleges > United States; college study > United States; educational innovations > United States; monografie; monographs
• ISBN: 9781118063484
• Physical Description: xxx, 475 s. ; 24 cm

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Preface.Acknowledgments.Introduction: Ripe for Disruption--and Innovation.Part I Reframing the Higher Education Crisis.Chapter 1 The Educational Innovator's Dilemma: Threat of Danger, Reasons for Hope.Part II The Great American University.Chapter 2 Puritan College.Chapter 3 Charles Eliot, Father of American Higher Education.Chapter 4 Pioneer Academy.Chapter 5 Revitalizing Harvard College.Chapter 6 Struggling College.Chapter 7 The Drive for Excellence.Chapter 8 Four-Year Aspirations in Rexburg.Chapter 9 Harvard's Growing Power and Profile.Chapter 10 Staying Rooted.Part III Ripe for Disruption.Chapter 11 The Weight of the DNA.Chapter 12 Even at Harvard.Chapter 13 Vulnerable Institutions.Chapter 14 Disruptive Competition.Part IV A New Kind of University.Chapter 15 A Unique University Design.Chapter 16 Getting Started.Chapter 17 Raising Quality.Chapter 18 Lowering Cost.Chapter 19 Serving More Students.Part V Genetic Reengineering.Chapter 20 New Models.Chapter 21 Students and Subjects.Chapter 22 Scholarship.Chapter 23 New DNA.Chapter 24 Change and the Indispensable University.Notes.The Authors.Innosight Institute.Index