The Gates Foundation Messaging Machine
Author Phil Hill /3 Comments/by Phil HillThis week a report was released by HCM Strategists and Edge Research, funded by the Gates Foundation, on the important topic of the mindset and perspectives of high school graduates aged 18-30 who chose to not go to college or who dropped out of a postsecondary program. The US higher education system has seen more […]
The Synchronous Opportunity: Wiley’s 2022 Voice of the Online Learner Report
Author Phil Hill /1 Comment/by Phil HillOne of the more useful series of research on online education over the years has come from Wiley University Services (essentially Wiley’s OPM division) via its acquisition of Learning House (a smaller OPM). The survey series Online College Students has been very useful in getting the perception of students – both undergraduate and graduate – […]
2020-21 IPEDS Data: Profile of Mid-Pandemic 12-Month Enrollments
Author Phil Hill /1 Comment/by Phil HillI’ve covered the National Center for Education Statistic’s IPEDS data on distance education (i.e., online education) for the past ten years, starting with this 2012 profile and continuing to the recent 2020 profile and analysis. IPEDS has been invaluable to researchers and analysts trying to understand these enrollment trends, but a well-known weakness is that […]
Update on Edmodo: Killing free platform usage, not all paid usage
Author Phil Hill /by Phil HillThanks to alert reader Kate Worlock, we have clarification from Edmodo based on last week’s post on the company shutting down the platform. It was a little rude of them, but Edmodo parent NetDragon put out a press release the day after the post, depriving me of clarity when writing. tl;dr – free platform is […]
The End of the Road for Edmodo: Egypt, via China
Author Phil Hill /2 Comments/by Phil HillEdmodo, once valued at $236 million and currently boasting more than 100 million registered learners, will shut down the LMS in just over a month, as notified in Twitter. The online FAQ post provided a partial explanation: However, after more than a decade of ensuring Edmodo can stay a free tool for all, we have […]
Tennessee Enrollment Case Study on Misleading Narratives
Author Phil Hill /by Phil HillUS 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. […]
The End of the Road for Zovio as an OPM
Author Phil Hill /by Phil HillThis 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 […]
The Brutal Spring and Summer for OPMs and MOOCs
Blog /by Phil HillThere 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 […]
Clarification on 2U and Its Role as a Target
Author Phil Hill /1 Comment/by Phil HillI’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 […]
OPM Market Landscape and Dynamics: Summer 2022 updates
Author Phil Hill /by Phil HillThis 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 […]
UAGC Financials Confirm Falling Enrollments and Revenue
Author Phil Hill /1 Comment/by Phil HillIt 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 […]
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