Education Industry Insights

The goal of Education Industry Insights is to provide clients with timely and tangible market insights to mitigate market challenges, provide reliable market data and strategic best practices to ensure that clients are well-informed regarding important decisions in the education industry. The Gilfus Education Group consists of individuals of the highest caliber talent and experience in educational research, strategy, planning, and technical implementation services.

Based in Washington, DC, the Gilfus Education Group delivers education innovation by bringing refreshing clarity and a pragmatic approach to academic and corporate enterprises through educational, technology, and business consulting. The company provides a wide array of services to clients across the United States and around the world, offering insightful and diversified expertise to the education industry.

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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 decades of education 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.

• Our Background and History.
• Blackboard Founder Leaves to bring broader expertise and capabilities to the Education Industry.

Education Predictions 2010 - 2011

As an independent consulting organization the Gilfus Education Group predicts the following top five trends in education innovation:

• Rapid adoption of eTextbooks by faculty and students, along with eTextbook platforms by colleges.
• Upsurge of mobile devices and applications that facilitate better learning experiences.
• Major advancements in academic analytics capabilities that elevate eLearning intelligence.
• Launch of administrative platforms focused on providing improved services to lifelong learners.
• Rise of major media organizations providing digital education applications with high production values.

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.