Projected 2015 Trends in the Education Industry

"The K-12 and higher education publishing industry got its digital sea legs in motion in 2014, and that digital momentum is expected to continue to power growth in 2015. With the digital migration solidly under way, publishers are looking for continued growth in revenue from digital products and continued decline in the portion of their revenue generated by print. Simba Information projects the combined K-12 and higher education industry will reach $16.56 billion in 2015, up 4.7% from 2014 ...  6. Open educational resources gain traction  Open educational resources (OER) will begin to make more of an impact in higher education in 2015. While University systems in New York and California are working to provide open textbooks and resources, faculty awareness of OER, in general, still is poor: only about 33% acknowledged they were familiar with OER in a fall 2014 Babson Survey Research Group/Pearson survey. Still, some 77.5% of respondents who are not currently using OER said they plan to or might use OER in the next three years. That makes OER a factor for publishers to deal with.

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