College Course Materials Market Trends & Forecast 2016
College Course Materials Market Trends & Forecast 2016 provides an overview of the changing market for instructional resources in higher education. This new edition of Simba Information’s annual reporting on the college instructional materials market offers a particular focus on the disruption in:
- Distribution channels;
- Enrollment trends;
- The shift to digital as students opt for renting textbooks.
- Methodology
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Table The Beloit College Mindset List, Class of 2020 (Most students born in 1998; selected facts)
- Market Size and Structure
- Institution Types and Numbers
- Table Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions, 2014-2015
- Where Students Are Enrolled
- Table Enrollment by Institution Type (# in 000)
- Table Simba Information Career College Enrollment Index
- Enrollment Projected To Rise Over Next Decade
- Table Projected Undergraduate Enrollment by Institution Type (# in 000)
- More Students Learning at a Distance
- Table Percent of Students Taking at Least One Course at a Distance
- State Fiscal Support for Higher Education Increased in Fiscal 2016
- Table State Fiscal Support for Higher Education, FY2016 vs. FY20151 (Fiscal 2016 ended June 30, 2016; $ in millions; ranked by % change from Fiscal 2015)
- Recent Tuition Hikes Are Relatively Small
- Table Tuition and Fees, 2015-2016 vs. 2014-2015
- New State Higher Education Measures
- Federal Budget Focus: Student Aid and Expanding Access
- Table Selected Federal Budget Items for Postsecondary Sector, FY 2015-FY 2017I ($ in millions)
- Federal Policy Focus Under Trump: TBD
- Institution Types and Numbers
- Course Materials
- Share Shift Among Media in College Course Materials
- Table Share of Media Used in College Courses, 2015 (% share based on $5.59 billion market)
- Traditional Print Textbooks Are Losing Prominence
- The Changing View of Print Textbooks
- Table Sales by Segment of Key College Course Materials 2014-2015 ($ in millions)
- Digital Media Firming Up as Market Leader
- Publisher Focus: Digital Learning Solutions for Student Success
- Pearson Pares & Restructures
- Higher-Ed Digital Unit Sales Top Print at Cengage
- Table Simba's Leading College Publishers, 2015 vs. 2014 ($ in millions)
- McGraw-Hill Maintains Digitally Rosy Outlook
- Wiley Confronts a More Challenging Market Environment
- OER: Growing Competitor to Commercial Course Materials
- Table Publishers' Digital Metrics, 2015
- OpenStax Embodies OER
- California Progresses toward Open Source Materials
- Table OER Degree Initiative Participants
- Achieving the Dream's $9.8M Grant Initiative
- Understanding of OER Is Sometimes Murky
- Impact on Publishers
- Share Shift Among Media in College Course Materials
- Distribution
- Competitive Campus Store Landscape
- Table Campus Store Operators
- Follett Buys Nebraska Book Store Operations
- Barnes & Noble Education Spins Off and Grows
- Amazon Goes to Ground
- Campus Store Focus Moving from Books to Campus Hub
- Promoversity Adds Branded Goods to B&N Education
- American U Store Goes Textbook Free
- NACS Merges General Merchandise & Course Materials Businesses
- Online Distribution and Services
- Follett: Adoption, Affordability and Access
- B&N Ed Shelves Yuzu, Buys LoudCloud
- VitalSource and Ingram to Expand Access
- Nebraska Book Focuses on eCommerce
- Rafter Shuts Down after a Decade
- Distributors, Colleges Work to Harness OER
- B&N Embraces OER
- California Progresses (Slowly) toward Open Source
- Coming: More Publisher eCommerce
- Competitive Campus Store Landscape
- Conclusions and Outlook
- Conclusions
- Table Sales by Segment Forecast of Key College Course Materials 2015 - 2019P ($ in millions)
- Outlook
- Outlook for 2017
- Conclusions
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