LearnZillion Going After District Curriculum Business, Aims to Compete With Big Publishers - Market Brief

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Summary:

"LearnZillion, a provider of free lessons and videos for educators, has begun selling a new commercial curriculum to school districts, in a move to compete with publishers and at least one provider of “open” educational resources. To date, LearnZillion has focused on providing supplemental lessons, offered at no cost other than what schools pay for support services associated with the material, such as professional development. With the change, teachers and others will still have access to all of that free English/language arts and math content. But now the company will begin offering full-course curriculum as an “enterprise” product to K-12 systems, coupling its material with professional development, print and digital delivery, and other support. What LearnZillion has focused on until now is trying to help teachers make sense of rich, but potentially overwhelming curriculum through supplementary materials, so they can better use those resources in the classroom. The goal, so far, has been to help educators with “the Sunday night problem,” said Eric Westendorf, the company’s CEO, in an interview...."

Link:

https://marketbrief.edweek.org/marketplace-k-12/learnzillion-going-district-curriculum-business-aims-compete-big-publishers/

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oa.new oa.oer oa.education oa.textbooks oa.moocs oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.books oa.courseware

Date tagged:

06/07/2018, 15:31

Date published:

06/07/2018, 11:31