- by Karen Meaney
- June 12 2017
- Ed tech
- educational tablets
- k-12
- K-12 products
Does the K-12 Tablet Market Mirror the Broader Worldwide Market for Tablet Computers?
The appetite worldwide for tablet computers, as tracked by International Data Corp., shows a declining market with unit shipments for full year 2016 down 15.6% from 2015—the second straight year of decreasing shipments. Slate tablets - tablets without a dedicated keyboard - continue to decline in sales.
- by Karen Meaney
- May 17 2017
- curriculum
- education
- educational media
- k-12
- Reading
- Simba
Are New Standards Changing Reading Instruction and Curriculum Selection?
With schools moving to implement more rigorous standards, some changes are occurring in reading instruction and the resources used for that instruction, although much remains the same.
- by Noah Miller
- April 21 2017
- digital learning
- education
- education market
- instructional materials
Three Course Materials Changes College Publishers Should Know About
The idea of a ‘traditional’ higher education is changing with declining enrollment rates, students’ preference for technology, and open education resources that threaten the market’s older publishers.
- by Noah Miller
- March 27 2017
- data
- education market
- market research
- Mediterranean cuisine
- Professional Publishing
Introducing the New Simba Information Knowledge Center
Simba Information has introduced an updated version of our popular Knowledge Center, a one-stop platform that unifies Simba's authoritative content and revolutionizes the way clients access and use market research.
- by Noah Miller
- February 22 2017
- publishing
- scholarly publishing
- STEM
- STM
Why STM Publishers Care About Dynamic Publishing
Publishers in the STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) field already use today’s huge advances in computing power, analytics, and big data to synthesize answers to users’ questions using sources in real time. This process is called dynamic publishing, and it’s the next big thing in STM online services according to Simba Information’s new report, STM Online Services 2016-2020.
- by Kathy Mickey
- February 8 2017
- education
- education market
- instructional materials
- textbooks
Amid Disruption, Publishers Shift Strategies in Higher Ed Market
Disruption has been a key descriptive term for the higher education market in the United States for several years. The term continued to be apt in 2016 and remains viable as the market heads into 2017, according to Simba Information’s new College Course Materials Market Trends & Forecast 2016.
- by Karen Meaney
- February 2 2017
- digital content
- digital device usage
- digital devices
- digital games
- digital learning
- Ed tech
- education
- education market
- educational media
- educational tablets
- educational technology
- k-12
- K-12 products
- kids
- prek-12
- prek-12 market
- schools
- Simba
- students
- teaching materials
Is Spending for Classroom Hardware Short-Changing Materials Spending?
Given the limited budgetary resources of many public districts and schools, it has been speculated that increased spending for classroom hardware may be depressing spending on traditional instructional materials.
Small Publishers Find a Niche with Open Access Books
University presses, learned societies and small commercial publishers that have been the most vulnerable to disruption brought by the Internet, open access (OA) movement and tight library budgets are starting to experiment with models for publishing OA books. The good news for them? Three of the five most dominate academic publishers are not.
- by Kathy Mickey
- October 24 2016
- classroom
- Ed tech
- edtech
- education
- education market
- educational media
- educational technology
- market
- online education
- prek
- prek-12
- prek-12 market
- professional development
- students
- teachers
- teaching
- technology
Easy Access and Equity Are Two Goals of States’ Professional Learning Hubs
Vermont is one example of a state with a Professional Learning Network. Launched in 2013, it is a statewide system for professional learning related to two objectives: instructional leadership and Common Core implementation.
It’s a Jungle Out There: The Tricky Business of Indentifying Predatory Publishers in an Open Access Habitat
Steady increases in journal subscription costs have given rise to a movement to create free, unfettered access to scholarly research. This movement has the broad support of researchers, governments, private research foundations, college and university faculty and librarians.But disruption of a scholarly publishing ecosystem that traces its roots to the 17th century has given rise to a new breed of publishers with questionable business practices.The latest report from Simba Information, Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020, delves into the emergence of such predatory publishers and how the industry is combating it.
