US postsecondary enrollment is in free fall, especially at community colleges, and there is plenty of concern about what this trend means and how to reverse it. But it can be quite difficult for education leaders to make smart strategic decisions when there is so much noise in the data, and so many narratives involved. […]
This is the endMy only friend, the endOf our elaborate plans, the end – James Douglas Morrison As was widely reported yesterday, we now have a resolution on the end of the Zovio / UAGC relationship, with UAGC buying out Zovio’s single-customer OPM business for a dollar. From Higher Ed Dive: Zovio and the University […]
There was a lot of news last week from Coursera’s and 2U / edX’s quarterly earnings calls, and I plan to dive deeper in the next week or so on that subject. But first it strikes me that we’re seeing consistently bad news for Online Program Management (OPM) companies and the associated MOOCs, particulary in […]
I’ve gotten a lot of feedback on yesterday’s OPM Market Landscape and Dynamics post, particularly around the changes to the Mad Max diagram. There is one clarification I want to make on the protrayal of 2U, which is important in terms of the referenced Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article. Wheel Off but No Crash 2U […]
This year has shown the increasing dangers of the Online Program Management (OPM) market, based on financial market pressures and increasingly likely regulatory activity. While I expect some concrete changes in the next four months (leading to a Fall 2022 update), I think it is worth updating the OPM graphics this summer based on the […]
It has taken some time, but I now have access to recent University of Arizona Global Campus (UAGC) financials and enrollments based on a report in early May for the Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee (SPBAC) at the University of Arizona. As with my handling of the financials from Purdue Global, I think it […]
In mid May I wrote a post “The Market Fall of EdTech Will Have Non-Financial Impacts” that included this observation: I’m not a financial analyst, and I care more about company strategy and operational capabilities. One thing it means is that we should expect increased M&A activity, both from healthier companies buying others for a bargain […]
It’s been a while since I last posted, partially as I’m trying to make sense of new data and anecdotes coming in around that crucial measure of organizational viability for higher ed institutions – enrollments. In that post I combined IPEDS and National Student Clearinghouse enrollment data, showing that while total enrollments were already going […]
The two best sources for enrollment data for US Higher Education are the Department of Education’s IPEDS data set and the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) reports. The NSC shares both the Current Term Enrollment Estimates reports (May and December) and ongoing Stay Informed estimates during the spring and fall terms as data comes in. IPEDS: […]
Anthology, which acquired Blackboard in the fall, or more accurately whose private equity primary owner Veritas Capital acquired Blackboard and combined with Anthology in the fall, announced a new deal with Class Technologies. Class is the company founded and run by Blackboard co-founder and former CEO Michael Chasen that provides education-specific virtual classroom software on […]
