EDUCATION

The landscape of education is undergoing rapid transformation.
  • Increasingly, education is being viewed as a solution to the challenges facing our economy: global competition, automation, high unemployment, and sluggish GDP growth.
  • Online learning has revolutionized traditional teaching methods, exemplified by the impact of initiatives like the Khan Academy in San Jose schools.
  • MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have greatly expanded access to education, allowing students worldwide to learn from renowned professors, albeit with varying outcomes compared to traditional classrooms.
  • Collaborations between testing firms and universities offering MOOCs have led to accredited degree programs.
  • Learning management systems are evolving to embrace concepts like "social learning," recognizing that students derive knowledge from diverse sources.
Our Experience:
  • We streamlined student finance processes for a publicly traded for-profit university, integrating disparate databases and enhancing counselor productivity to improve retention rates.
  • As implementation partners, we upgraded technology for leading providers of K-12 school management software.
  • We developed a mobile application for a prominent venture-funded startup, facilitating the conversion of existing content for mobile platforms.
  • Our team devised a video content delivery system for a major provider serving K-12 school systems, enabling remote attendance through web-based streaming across over 150 school districts nationwide.
  • We provided advisory consulting services, overseeing the consolidation of student finance operations for a large university and developing implementation strategies for a leading state university.
Education