Tag Archive for: OPM Market

Pearson Sells Its OPM Business

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International Impacts of US OPM Rule Making

As a reminder, I’m co-leading a webinar on Monday with Russ Poulin and Cheryl Dowd of WCET and the State Authorization Network (SAN) to address question on third-party servicer (TPS) expansion. You can register here for the event at March…

The Great Conflation

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Lest I Understate The Issue

On Wednesday I wrote about the US Department of Education's announcements on a review of OPM revenue sharing agreements (specifically by re-considering the bundled services exception from 2011 guidance) and the vast expansion of the definition…

Did You See The Memo About the TPS Reports? EdTech Style

Well that was quite an update from the Department of Education (ED). The department, in a long-awaited move, has started action on reviewing the 2011 Dear Colleague letter guidance that provides much of the regulatory foundation for OPM revenue…

OPM Market Forces: Lower revenue sharing and contract length

In multiple podcast interviews, interviews with GAO researchers and investors, blog posts, and keynotes, I have pushed back on the popular but flawed narrative that the Online Program Management (OPM) market is moving away from tuition revenue…

Talking OPM Market and Institution Strategy

Last week I attended the WCET annual meeting in Denver - perhaps my favorite conference of the year in terms of quality of conversations and me staying through each session - and I thoroughly enjoyed the general session panel I was on, "Mad…

The End of the Road for Zovio as an OPM

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…

Clarification on 2U and Its Role as a Target

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…

OPM Market Landscape and Dynamics: Summer 2022 updates

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…