By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Academic Market in China: An Overview
Tao Tao, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2018/12/03
This post is directed toward people trying to sell academic journal subscriptions in China, and thus has limited appeal on that front, but also in so doing offers a pretty good summary of the structure of China's higher education system, describing different types of institutions, and providing statistics on each, including the primary teaching and research focus overall. More...
Le marché du travail en 2018 en Guadeloupe
Fin 2018, les Demandes d’Emploi en Fin de Mois (DEFM) de catégorie A et ABC diminuent de 2,6% et 1,2% respectivement sur un an en Guadeloupe. Les entrées a Pôle emploi ont été moins nombreuses que les sorties sur l’ensemble de l’année. Plus...
Top Hat Content Rescue Bookmarklet
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Top Hat Content Rescue Bookmarklet
Tom Woodward, Bionic Teaching, 2018/10/05
As Tom Woodward writes, "Top Hat has some useful features (and a very aggressive sales team) but it’s not a place that makes it easy to get your content out." This short item offers help. More...
Chinese teens on college tours a growing market
By Kerrie Kennedy. An increasing number of Chinese adolescents are embarking on college tours abroad and creating a lucrative market for universities, college towns and tourism-related businesses, a new study by the University of Illinois has suggested. More...
BESA announces 2019 Vietnam exhibition
By . The British Educational Suppliers Association has announced from 2019 it will run an exhibition in Vietnam to give British suppliers a chance to break into new markets. More...
Grand Canyon Education Acquires Orbis: We have new segment of OPM market
By Phil Hill. Nine months ago we wrote about the new movement for the companies formerly know as "for-profits" in the education space to convert the actual schools into non-profit entities and declare their intent for parent companies to become a new form of Online Program Management (OPM) providers. More...
The market forces driving university grade inflation
In seeking to explain the phenomenon of grade inflation in some of our higher education institutions (Universities watchdog threatens fines over grade inflation, 19 December), the Office for Students might reflect on just how the “value” and meaning attaching to a first-class degree has been impacted by the incremental shift of emphasis imposed upon the HE sector by policymakers. More...
Grand Canyon Education Acquires Orbis: We have new segment of OPM market
By Phil Hill. Nine months ago we wrote about the new movement for the companies formerly know as "for-profits" in the education space to convert the actual schools into non-profit entities and declare their intent for parent companies to become a new form of Online Program Management (OPM) providers. Kaplan University. More...
Pôle emploi lancera début 2019 ses nouveaux marchés de formation
- Un rôle d’expert reconnu pour l’organisme de formation dans le positionnement et la conception du parcours
- Plus d’individualisation : proposer toutes les compétences du parcours (formation, remise à niveau, coaching, VAE…) dans le cadre de groupement d’OF si nécessaire
- Renforcement des périodes en entreprise pour les formations longues
- Possibilité de suspendre la formation et de la reprendre à l’issue d’un CDD
- Introduction de primes de satisfaction et pour l’atteinte de certifications….
A suivre en début d’année !
North American Higher Ed LMS Market Share by Enrollments: A consolidating market
By Phil Hill. We have published market share data measured by total institutional enrollment instead of institutional count in several posts at e-Literate over the years, within the twice-annual reports of our LMS Market Analysis service, and for several of our premium subscribers of the same service. In July of this year we reported that Canvas had overtaken Blackboard as the market leader in US higher education in terms of institutional adoptions as well as scaled by enrollment. These last two posts got a fair amount of media and vendor attention. More...