About the Gilfus Education Group
Leveraging our robust history in academic and administrative technologies and institutional planning we partner with today’s organizational and industry leaders to develop effective and lasting improvements to education. Our expert consultants help organizations become better positioned to achieve strategic goals, compete for scarce resources, and plan for the future. With our flexible developmental consulting model and full service portfolio our team becomes your team. From strategic planning and transformational change to business intelligence, evaluation, assessment, selection, procurement, research, implementation, and IT management our experts work to meet the diverse needs of Higher Education, K12, Government and business organizations.
Education Consulting
- Strategic Advisory - Industry expertise through informed decision making.
- Education Marketing - Get noticed and be seen in today's competitive web environment.
- Security and Compliance - Protect your learners, protect your organization.
- Intelligence and Analytics - Empower your organization and empower your learners.
- Education Continuity - Provide education, through the toughest of times.
- Green Initiatives - For the Greater Good. Curriculum. Technology. Programs.
Technology Consulting
- Shared Services - Create efficiencies, reduce costs, optimize budgeting.
- Academic Technology - Learning, Community and Content (Moodle, Sakai, Blackboard and more.)
- LMS Selections - Align online capacity to strategic goals, improve faculty and student service.
- Enterprise Resource Planning- Implementing Peoplesoft, SunGard, Datatel and more..
- Integration and Interoperability - Reducing fragmentation through effective integration.
- Software Development - Extending LMS, ERP and Content Management System technology.
- Content and Instruction - Create lasting and effective learning experiences.
Business Consulting
- Business Planning - Advising early stage and lower, to middle market education companies.
- Strategic Marketing - Compete effectively and experience new business growth.
- Market Development - Achieve your quarterly sales goals, build effective partnerships.
- Education Industry Investors - Access the next stage in business growth. Discover the next success! Make the right investment.
- Gilfus Advisors - Access the only Expert network for education.
Become a Preferred Consultant
The Gilfus Education Group seeks out the best independent experts. Our group consists of individuals of the highest caliber talent and experience in Education, Technology and Business Consulting, including educational research, strategy, planning, and implementation services.
Based in Washington, DC, the firm is led by one of the most respected and innovative executives in the education industry. Gilfus Education Group consultants provide our clients with a real added business benefit; using our trusted technical skills, visionary thinking and business knowledge to help clients achieve their goals.
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Grounded in Education
Looking for the "E-True Hollywood Story" on educational technologies and its impact on organizations. Leveraging our robust history in the eLearning industry we partner with today’s organizational and industry leaders to develop effective and lasting improvements to education. Our clients become better positioned to achieve strategic goals, compete for scarce resources, and plan for the future.
Education Predictions
As an independent consulting organization the Gilfus Education Group predicts the following top five trends in education innovation:
- Emergence of robust “Enterprise” Open Source Learning Management Systems.
- Combination of academic and administrative functionality into a more cohesive experience.
- Proliferation of “Software-as-a-Service” administrative and academic applications.
- Growth of independent content object repositories to support teaching and learning.
- Introduction of successful learning applications from other countries into North America.
Industry News
White Papers
- Community Platform for Education
There may no longer be a need to make a major distinction between the capabilities of an LMS and an education portal. Moreover, the concept of CPE could supersede and altogether displace the very notion of an LMS.
- Intelligence Emerges from Enterprise Platform
Even with significant advances in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) techniques and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methodologies for system integration, one of the most acute information technology gaps at colleges today is the huge discontinuity between the LMS and the ERP.
- "Social Learning" Buzz Masks Dimensions
One issue with today’s offerings for social software in education is that they are being presented as “social learning” solutions, but they are not being designed, packaged or integrated with the greater concepts of social learning theory in mind.