An international study of technology enhanced learning-related strategies from the perspective of disruptive innovation
Interactive Technology and Smart Education
ISSN: 1741-5659
Article publication date: 12 August 2020
Issue publication date: 22 September 2020
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to analyse institutional strategy documents relating to technology-enhanced learning.
Design/methodology/approach
In total, 84 documents were sampled from 71 leading higher education institutions (HEIs), identified through the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings 2018. Qualitative content analysis with a directed approach was used to analyse the strategy documents. The specific theory used was disruptive innovation. The use of “innovation”, or variants thereof, was counted in each document. Ten case studies from the sample were used for content analysis.
Findings
Technology-enhanced learning-related strategy documents are conservative, advocating the more efficient use of existing technologies, or the incremental enhancement of existing technologies, but not transformation through technology.
Originality/value
By evaluating the extent to which selected institutional strategies engage with innovation in technology-enhanced learning, this study argues HEIs advocate sustaining innovation or efficiency innovation to a greater extent than disruptive innovation.
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Citation
Flavin, M. and Quintero, V. (2020), "An international study of technology enhanced learning-related strategies from the perspective of disruptive innovation", Interactive Technology and Smart Education, Vol. 17 No. 4, pp. 475-488. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITSE-11-2019-0077
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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