Theory

Disruptive Moments in Teaching

No... not as in students sitting on facebook in class...

(Randy Bass: Associate Provost & Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship as Georgetown University)

(Bass, 2012)

These are practices/technologies etc. that:
TAKE ROOT, CAUSE PRESSURE, RISE TO THE TOP

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-Adapted from the business theory of "Disruptive Innovation" by Randy Bass

-Traditionally, formal curriculum has been at the center...
we are seeing a shift from the:
Instructional paradigm -> Learning Paradigm

Bass refers to this as the "Post-Course Era"
-Formal curriculum is being pressured from two sides:
1. High Impact Practices including Experiential Co-Curriculum
2. Informal Learning and the Participatory Culture of the www