Open AccessDisruptive Technology in Higher Education with Special Reference to Library and Information Science
Author(s) -
Abhay Bhakte
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of advanced research in science, communication and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-9429
DOI - 10.48175/ijarsct-2524
Subject(s) - disruptive innovation , disruptive technology , dilemma , innovator , product (mathematics) , information technology , computer science , marketing , sociology , engineering , business , intellectual property , epistemology , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , operating system , manufacturing engineering
According to Christensen's theory of Disruptive Innovation, these disruptive technologies are not designed explicitly to support learning and teaching in higher education, but have educational potential. A disruptive technology is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry. Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen coined the term disruptive technology. In his 1997 best-selling book, "The Innovator's Dilemma," Christensen separates new technology into two categories: sustaining and disruptive. Sustaining technology relies on incremental improvements to an already established technology. Disruptive technology lacks refinement, often has performance problems because it is new, appeals to a limited audience and may not yet have a proven practical application.(Such was the case with Alexander Graham Bell's "electrical speech machine," which we now call the telephone)