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Whatever Happened to the Digital Natives? Disruptive Innovation in the Higher Education Community of Practice

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This chapter uses the Community of Practice theory to understand how Disruptive Innovation impacts on higher education communities. The chapter also engages with critique of the Community of Practice in order to offer a nuanced reading of the theory in relation to technology enhanced learning.

New entrants to a university can be technology innovators, but universities may not welcome the new technologies users bring with them. Moreover, students and lecturers may not wish to use the technologies they use to support their social lives to support their learning and teaching lives, too.

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Flavin, M. (2017). Whatever Happened to the Digital Natives? Disruptive Innovation in the Higher Education Community of Practice. In: Disruptive Technology Enhanced Learning. Digital Education and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57284-4_4

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