 Who is innovating in higher education right now? And what are they learning from this innovation? Not enough people are innovating enough in higher education you know the place to start is General Electric looks nothing like it looked in 1975 Harvard Or Yale or Princeton or Stanford Look a lot like They looked in 1975. They're about the same size to within a factor of two They're about the same number of buildings They operate on about the same calendar They have many of the same people or some number of the same people in Significant Positions so I think the main thing to say is that for something that's all about ideas and For something that's all about young people The pace of innovation in higher education is stunningly slow We're still on a system where the break is in the summer and the reason we're on that system Is that when everybody went to pick the plants? That was the natural way to organize school and it's still going that way you know, I think the action in the potential action in higher education is Probably heavily through distance learning and artificial intelligence and learning technologies of Various kinds because if you think about it the unique capacity that Online education has is that on the one hand they're huge economies of scale Once the lectures filmed a hundred thousand people can watch it at the same cost as a hundred people watching it and on the other hand You can have much more Personalization You can Relisten to the bit you didn't understand you can insert diagnostic questions and have a different lecture for people depending on how they do on the Diagnostic questions so it permits What's usually very rare? which is more differentiation and More economies of scale but I would say to date it hasn't yet been pursued on a scale and With a degree of energy that is commensurate with The with the with the real challenge, you know a number of universities have Made what Clay Christiansen would say is the first elementary error They said that they're Mook efforts or their distance learning efforts are gonna all be designed to be complementary of better education on their campuses Well, that's the certain logic to that in terms of faculty politics and in terms of faculty comfort and all of that But the essence of clay Christiansen's lessons about disruptive innovation is if you want to do something all new You have to separate it from the original mission Not judge it by the standards of the original product and let it be separate and what I've been struck by in the distance education efforts is that they tend to be very much within paradigm and Not set up in Separate ways, so I think there's I think the main thing to say about innovation in higher education is that there's much too Little of it