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Results
Kurland reports that the Lycea platform has played a major role in Scholastic’s ability to develop, maintain, and support a broad range of digital interactive learning products.
- Together, Scholastic and Follett have completed more than 80 projects yielding many award-winning educational products.
- The Read 180 product is widely adopted with revenues in excess of $130 million. This product has been especially successful in large urban schools where students often need additional reading support.
- Scholastic’s technology products have helped the company capture large statewide adoptions for its textbook programs.
Lessons Learned
- Scholastic decided to focus on its core competency of developing innovative content and pedagogy that helps students learn and meet important learning outcomes by outsourcing technology development activities.
- The strong partnership with Follett Digital Resources allows Scholastic to decrease time to market while increasing product functionality and feature sets.
- Forming strong, cross-functional teams with continuity has been essential to Scholastic’s ability to innovate and develop differentiated products.
Gilbane Conclusions
- Interactive learning programs are increasingly dependent on rapidly-evolving technology. By working with a vendor whose platform supports multiple publishers and education entities, a publisher can take advantage of a functionally richer environment, with less investment.
- Vendors such as Follett Digital Resources continually adapt platforms to keep pace with evolving industry standards such as SIF, QTI, SCORM, Common Cartridge, Section 508, NIMAS, and others, as well as new computing platforms and operating systems. These tasks would be costly for individual publishers to conduct on their own.
- Keeping technology products aligned with constantly evolving school information systems is a complex task as schools continue to upgrade their technology. It is more efficient for publishers to outsource this function.
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The Gilbane Group is a consulting practice focused on the strategies and content technologies employed by commercial and enterprise publishing professionals. Both Steve Paxhia and Bill Trippe have decades of experience in electronic publishing, content management, and SGML/XML and related technologies.
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