Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns Michael B. Horn mhorn@innosightinstitute.org Twitter: @innosightinstit April 20, 2011 © Innosight Institute 1 Disruptive Innovation Handheld $200 Personal computer $2,000 Minicomputer Mainframe computer $200,000 $2,000,000 Complicated, integrated, expensive Simple, modular, less expensive © Innosight Institute Disruption in business models has been the dominant historical mechanism for making things more affordable and accessible Yesterday • GM • Dept. Stores • Digital Eqpt. • Delta • JP Morgan • Xerox • IBM • Cullinet • AT&T • State universities • Sony DiskMan Today • Toyota • Wal-Mart • Dell • Southwest Airlines • Fidelity • Canon • Microsoft • Oracle • Cingular • Community colleges • Apple iPod © Innosight Institute Disruption of Toyota © Innosight Institute Disruption in business models has been the dominant historical mechanism for making things more affordable and accessible Yesterday • GM • Dept. Stores • Digital Eqpt. • Delta • JP Morgan • Xerox • IBM • Cullinet • AT&T • State universities • Sony DiskMan Today • Toyota • Wal-Mart • Dell • Southwest Airlines • Fidelity • Canon • Microsoft • Oracle • Cingular • Community colleges • Apple iPod © Innosight Institute Tomorrow • Chery • Internet retail • RIM Blackberry • Air taxis • ETFs • Zink • Linux • Salesforce.com • Skype • Online universities • Cell Phones Prime examples of non-consumption • Credit recovery • Drop outs • AP/advanced courses • Scheduling conflicts • Home-schooled and homebound students • Small, rural, urban schools • Unit recovery • Disaster preparedness • Tutoring • Professional development • Pre-K • After school • In the home • Incarcerated youth • In-school suspension • School bus commute • Summer school • Teacher absenteeism Looming budget cuts and teacher shortages are an opportunity, not a threat © Innosight Institute The substitution of one thing for another always follows an S-curve pattern % new % old % new 10.0 1.0 0.1 .01 .001 .0001 03 © Innosight Institute 05 07 09 11 13 15 Online learning gaining adoption • Over 4M K-12 students doing online learning now, according to Ambient Insight • 27% of high school students took online course in 2009 © Innosight Institute We all have different learning needs & goals at different times • Multiple intelligences • Linguistic, Mathematical, Kinesthetic • Motivations/interests • Learning Styles • Visual, aural, playful • Talents • “Giftedness” is fluid • Aptitudes • Different paces • Fast, medium, slow • Ongoing neuroscience • Depends on subject/domain research • Research in practice • fMRI scans • Scientific Learning • CAST/Universal Design for Learning • K12, Inc. • All Kinds of Minds © Innosight Institute • Renzulli Learning Conflicting mandates in the way we must teach vs. The way students must learn © Innosight Institute Paces of Learning Hierarchical Learning Styles Physical Multiple Intelligences Lateral Standardization !! Temporal Need for customization for differences in how we learn Customization !! Interdependencies in the teaching infrastructure Predictably improving Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. Definition of blended learning Any time a student learns in part in a supervised brick-andmortar place away from home and At least in part through online delivery, with some element of student control over time, place, path and/or pace = Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. Blended learning Blended learning is not… • Where teacher uses electronic white board with online curriculum to lecture • Where student uses online textbooks instead of hardcopy ones Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. 6 models of blended learning Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. Model #1: Face-to-Face Driver Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. Model #2: Rotation Online Learning Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. Model #3: Flex Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. Model #4: Online Lab Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. Model #5: Self-Blend Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. Model #6: Online Driver Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. Predictably improving Copyright Innosight Institute, Inc. Practical implications • Not beholden by the old metrics • • • • • • • • • • Seat time Competency-based Geographic boundaries Teacher certifications In general, move beyond focus on inputs/processes Self-sustaining funding Autonomous Human resources pipeline & PD Broadband/wireless infrastructure Portal/Based on usage and what works Treatment and use of data © Innosight Institute Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns Michael B. Horn mhorn@innosightinstitute.org Twitter: @innosightinstit April 20, 2011 © Innosight Institute