Distance Education as a Disruptive Technology

A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation, product, or service that eventually over-turns the existing dominant technology or product in the market. Disruptive innovations can be broadly classified into lower-end and new-market disruptive innovations. A new-market disruptive innovation is often aimed at noncon-sumption, whereas a lower-end disrup-tive innovation is aimed at mainstream customers who were ignored by estab-lished companies. Sometimes, a disrup-tive technology comes to dominate an existing market by either filling a role in