Disruptive innovations transform products or services into something so simple that anyone can use them, creating what Christensen called "asymmetric competition."
...half of all instruction will take place online within the next 10 years--and schools had better get into the online-learning market or risk losing their students to other providers.
Until now, it has been very expensive to teach to students' individual needs, he said--and yet, research shows that's how students learn best.
One reason online learning is attractive is because it allows for more of this customized approach to instruction than can be found in many classrooms.
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