Four recent articles about the OPM market that are worth reading.
OPMs & Program Support
This category covers vendors and services that support the development of online and blended programs, including Online Program Management (OPM) vendors.
Insight into Community College Students and Challenges of Online Education
New survey on community colleges and perceived barriers provides insights into the nature of some pushback of online education
Grand Canyon Education Acquires Orbis: We have new segment of OPM market
Grand Canyon University parent company isn’t playing around – buys Orbis for $362 million to fully enter OPM market
Coursera CEO Interview: Betting on OPM market and shift to low-cost masters degrees
Getting past rev-share vs. fee-for-service artificial dilemma; the real choice for OPM market may become low-cost vs. full-cost online degrees
Extension Engine and OPM Market Transparency
A couple of weeks ago, our response to Open SUNY’s Request for Information (RFI) on Online Program Management services (OPMs), we published an abridged version of our response on our company website and wrote a post about our observations here on e-Literate. Since, then, ExtensionEngine has followed suit. Here’s the introduction to the version that […]
Expansion of OPM-Derivative Model: Disney covers online degrees for hourly employees through Guild Education
Disney hands employees new educational benefit (with all four fingers), expanding Guild Education’s influence in market
Noodle Partners and the Boundary of the OPM Product Category
John Katzman says…