Author: Kate Worlock (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Audience: In this report, we focus on essential data and analysis providing an in-depth view into the Education & Training (E&T) segment, and thus will prove useful for all professionals, executives, and businesses that deal in this segment. This report includes detailed analysis of current market trends and our forecast for this segment’s growth and performance to 2014. Additionally, our “10 to Watch” section includes some up and coming players in this segment and the disruptive forces they embody, as well as some more established companies that are worth watching because of how they are diversifying or adapting to the market. This report provides advice and essential actions for publishers and information providers that want to create revenue opportunities, attract new buyers, and achieve competitive advantage. Equally, it supports those who cover and need greater understanding of the Education & Training segment, including suppliers to the industry, investment bankers and analysts, and journalists.

Highlights:

• Education is a market that has finally begun an inevitable move toward a digital environment
• Outsell’s Education & Training: 2010 Final Market and Share Report revealed that the proportion of revenues derived from digital content continued on an upward trajectory from 28.0% in 2009 to 36.2% in 2010



• Pearson was the first company to have moved past the 50% tipping point, while only one member of the top 10, PRISA, had digital revenues representing less than 10% of the total.
• 2011 will bring further developments along this scale as usage of tablet platforms and mobile devices increases
• The market continues to face a range of disruptive factors from new technology platforms, evolving business models, and pressure from open educational resources.
• Education markets have traditionally been slow to change, but this pace of change has started to accelerate and will continue to do so over the short term as digital services start to fulfill their promises of delivering more effective learning tools at a lower price point.

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Author:
Kate Worlock (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Audience:
Delivering accredited and high quality education in an interactive online environment is becoming an increasingly important option for educational institutions and providers to deliver and for students and professional learners to tap into. This report examines the changing size and shape of the market for online distance learning (ODL) in three segments: K-12, higher education, and professional training; offers case studies demonstrating best practice in this area; and discusses the implications of the development of this market for providers of content solutions and services.

Highlights:

• Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing online distance learning for the benefits it can provide both to learners via its flexibility and to institutions and businesses with its ability to access new markets and deliver cost-effective education and training.
• This report focuses on “online driver” distance learning systems: All curricula are delivered via an online platform and teacher, with students working remotely. Face-to-face meetings or extracurricular activities can be optional or mandatory.



• Distance Learning showed growth across global markets between 2008 and 2010 particularly outside of Africa and Latin America.
• This report provides an update to an earlier Outsell report, Global Distance Learning Market Overview, published in January 2009.

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Questions: Scott Templeman (Twitter, stempleman@outsellinc.com)

Kate Worlock (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Audience:

This report provides data and actionable advice for publishers and information providers in need of data, analysis, and an in-depth view into the Education & Training (E&T) segment of the information industry. This report is also highly relevant to those who follow the E&T segment, such as industry suppliers, investment bankers, analysts, and journalists.

Key Info:

• Outsell saw the global Education & Training industry generate revenues of $48.7 billion in 2010, with a growth of $2.1 billion from 2009.




• Digital services represented an increasingly important proportion of major educational publishers’ revenues.




• Continuing pressures on educational budgets caused many school districts to limit or postpone purchases of educational materials in 2010.




• Noticeable impact of new business models and routes to market: Rental services, Open Textbooks, Online Course Management Suites and more.

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Contacts:

Press Inquiries: Emily Pilk (Twitter, LinkedIn) epilk@outsellinc.com

Questions: Scott Templeman (Twitter, LinkedIn) stempleman@outsellinc.com