Moody’s downgrades Blackboard’s debt. Behind the financial lingo lies some insight into the company’s turnaround efforts and impact from late delivery of Learn Ultra.
Business & Economics
The "Business & Economics" category covers the business aspects of ed tech, including the financial health and business models of individual companies, economic aspects of selling in education that shape the available offerings, and coverage of markets and investment.
Online Program Management: Spring 2018 view of the market landscape
We break down the complex world of Online Program Management vendors. With updated pretty pictures.
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM: Conversion of for-profits and MOOCs
Purdue/ Kaplan, Grand Canyon, Ashford U all going “nonprofit”, Coursera focuses on degrees – the common theme of recent for-profit and MOOC news? The OPM market.
Top Hat Marketplace: What is it and should we care?
Despite initial questions about Top Hat Marketplace, the deeper I look the more convinced I am that this is something to watch
Cengage Unlimited Draws the Battle Lines in the Curricular Materials War
Which will win: “Good enough” or “better enough”?
Before We Turn Over Curriculum To Apple And Amazon . . .
Clarifications on my recent media comments about Apple and their initiative to push Swift programming and how colleges and universities need to tread carefully
Cengage Unlimited Textbook Author Update
Cengage Unlimited raises some substantial challenges for the company’s relationships with its authors.