Sibling Group Holdings is looking to overhaul our broken education system here in America, fusing together a severely fragmented industry, which is highly fractured both on the tech side and on the nonprofit/for-profit education management end of things. The idea of a portfolio strategy for the education space, where, instead of centrally planned and run school districts, we move towards a configuration where individual schools are seen more as performance contracts and the emphasis shifts from compliance to performance management and continuous improvement, is something which ultimately serves students better and helps restore healthy free market principles to the sector.
The K-12 market, sizing up all accoutrements from textbooks, to digital content and technology, represents around a $27.8B market ($18.3B, $2B, and $7.5B respectively from leading surveys of educators and education firms). The broader e-learning market across various industries, which encompasses education, is expected to grow to a whopping $49B by 2014 alone, with new facets like massive open online courses and other innovations gaining increased prominence.
Sibling Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary Blended Schools Network (BSN), provides benchmark-quality online curriculum for K-12 schools, including professional development for teachers, complete course authoring tools and learning management system (LMS) administration and support. Sibling is focused on market expansion and new product development to meet global demand by leveraging educational technology to improve student performance.
Teaching Alliance will acquire EMOs from the pool of some thirty or so in the U.S. (biggest of the bunch manages approximately 100 schools) focused on the charter school space, ultimately becoming involved with both private institutions and tutoring organizations in the global market. Tightening up operating margins via implementation of newer content and methods, especially digital content, will allow Sibling Group to wring greater profit and performance from the resulting education network.
As a roll-up company, Sibling Group is putting an emphasis on three segments: Educational Technology (“Ed-tech”), Education Management, and Curriculum design and development. Focusing on these areas, Sibling Group is positioning itself to as a pioneer in education transformation, creating high-quality lifelong learning options for the global marketplace.
The May 2014 acquisition of BSN provides Sibling with extensive infrastructure and solid groundwork for growth in a rapidly growing industry. BSN offers 212 different online courses. The network served more than 160 school districts with more than 300,000 course enrollments last year.
By creating a formula that can be applied to the entire spectrum of learning from youth through to adulthood in the corporate workspace, Sibling Group has its hands on the nascent potential of all of this digital, Internet-driven, and mobile technology that has come down the pipe in recent decades (and they are intent on using it to reshape the education landscape).
Low-cost, high-value online delivery of education and distributed education is the future; you can have the very best teachers teaching everyone with a lightweight generation and distribution method. Sibling Group understands the change and has designed an appropriate strategy for generating significant shareholder ROI as consumers upgrade to better, more modern education systems.
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