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Michael Horn

Disciplines:
usa
innovation
education technology

Summary

American education policy expert and co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation — who wrote Disrupting Class (with Clayton Christensen) — arguing that online education represents a disruptive innovation that will transform K-12 schooling.

Core Contribution

Applied Christensen's disruption theory to education — Disrupting Class's argument that online learning would follow the classic disruptive innovation path (starting with students poorly served by the traditional system, then moving upmarket) predicted the EdTech revolution.

Notable Works & Achievements

Disrupting Class

Choosing College

Historical Influences

Clayton Christensen Education reform movement

Intellectual Lineage

Clayton Christensen InstituteDisrupting Class

Contemporaries & Peers

Clayton Christensen Sal Khan

Minds Influenced

EdTech fieldLenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

Disrupting Class Education disruption framework

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