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This 5 page paper discusses the various efforts of faculty and college administration attempts to govern and run an organized campus. Disruptive technolgy, shared governance, organized ananrchy, organizatinal culture, and learning organization are addressed.
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all this dynamic fluidity, there has come a great disruption to the force of higher education. Disruptions such as disruptive technology, shared governance, organized anarchy, organizational cultures, and learning organizational
ideas. So much is changing so fast that the institutions of higher learning are falling behind and are in a mad scramble to catch up. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
The term itself seems incongruous at best. How is a technology disruptive and how does it fit in with the education scene? More than likely what is being disrupted is
the status quo, the tried and true, the traditional, which is being forced to change its method and mode of information delivery. Enter another term: blog. Blogging is the slang
version for weblog, as in, on the computer. Many educators have now made their class assignments, syllabus and directions available via websites specific to the courses they are teaching. Some
even go to the point of adding in links with additional resources for study and downloadable pre-tests. Students, it can be foreseen, could also take advantage of this in the
form of forums to meet in the cyber library to discuss a particular assignment. Knowledge management tool for compiling research logs, reference tools, policies and forms, classroom management tool, e.g.,
place for posting assignments, knowledge management tool for compiling research logs, reference tools, policies and forms, only make the instructor more accessible than they were only a few years ago.
SHARED GOVERNANCE Shared governance is a form of rule where the decision making responsibility is shared among those who are most likely
to be affected by that decision(Bowen 1998). What this would seem to mean, then, at least for the college, is that institutional decisions which would affect certain staff or students
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