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By DAVID STREITFELD  | NY Times | January 19, 2012 A technology company announces plans to reinvent higher education by encouraging the creation of a new kind of textbook. Students will learn better, faster, cheaper. They will be spurred to new triumphs that will finally reverse the persistent decline in American education and the American way of [...]

By Lyndsey Layton and Emma Brown, Published: November 26, 2011 WashingtonPost.com A Virginia company leading a national movement to replace classrooms with computers — in which children as young as 5 can learn at home at taxpayer expense — is facing a backlash from critics who are questioning its funding, quality and oversight. K12 Inc. [...]

By Jeffrey R. Young - October 20, 2011  Chronicle of Higher Education Philadelphia—When Pearson officials talk about their new learning-management system, OpenClass, they like to mention Google. They note that the software is distributed through Google’s App marketplace, and say that it was inspired by Google’s popular e-mail and Web services platform. Pearson drops the company’s [...]

“There has never been a time where colleges and universities are trying so many different things in order to generate new revenue streams,” said Stephen Gilfus, president and chief executive of Gilfus Education Group, a Washington-based education, technology and business consulting group. “Colleges and universities, given their current business model, are simply not sustainable, which is making many institutions across the country seriously rethink their business models. That includes almost every single college and university in the Washington D.C. area.”

Education officials in Nebraska have launched a pilot program for their first statewide virtual school. Today is the first day that school districts can apply to have students participate in the virtual school, called Nebraska Virtual Scholars. Fifty high school students will be accepted to participate in the pilot. Up until now, students in Nebraska [...]

Gilfus Education Group Announces Webinar on Developing a Productive Workforce from 2011 to 2020 “Workforce Development: Transitioning from 2011 to 2020” Washington, DC   (Thursday, August 11th, 2011) – Gilfus Education Group announced today that it will offer a webinar titled Workforce Development: Transitioning from 2011 to 2020.  Attendees will be provided with an overview [...]

Based on the Gilfus Education Group White Paper – The Enterprise Education Platform and the Intelligent Leanring Platform Datatle aunches combined ERP/LMS Aproach. Higher Education Administration Fuses with Teaching and Learning for Total Student View FAIRFAX, Va. (BUSINESS WIRE), June 23, 2010 – Ensuring student success at colleges and universities took a major step forward [...]

You’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger advocate of dashboards in higher education than Arizona State University’s John Rome. Like many academic institutions ASU already had a load of data around campus. It simply needed a way to make it valuable to various constituents. ASU needed a flexible development tool and design principles to put the icing on the cake. John chose a dashboard tool which enabled his team to create education dashboards quickly by pulling academic analytics data from any system, including the data warehouse.

If you are attending the HEUG conference in San Antonio the week of March 1^st. Stephen Gilfus, of the Gilfus Education Group,would like to invite you to our booth to meet or new team. The Gilfus Education Group maintains unmatched capabilities to the industry.

Academic analytics is the process of analyzing institutional data captured university enterprise systems for decision making and reporting purposes (Campbell & Oblinger, 2007). Higher education is entering into a new era of heightened scrutiny as governments, accrediting agencies, staff, students and parents call for new ways of monitoring and improving student success (Campbell & Oblinger, 2007). The Bradley review into higher education in Australia specifically mentions benchmarking activities in areas like student engagement as indicators of institutional quality (Commonwealth Government of Australia, 2008).

Important Update: Stephen Gilfus, Founder of Blackboard, speaking at Business Breakfast About Education Industry Forum Breakfast Briefings This platform for education operators, investors and the community of specialists that bring quality to education businesses continues to give members of the for-profit education industry the opportunity to receive current information and stay in contact with a [...]

In one of the most insightful reviews of the year to come, Lev Gonick shares his top trends for higher education for 2010. Combined with Gilfus Education Group predictions from EDUCAUSE we CHALK 2010 up as a year of continued Education Innovation.”
– Stephen Gilfus, Gilfus Education Group