Converting content into smart content is crucial for publishers to survive in the digital and artificial intelligence age. Educational publishers have a plethora of content which needs to be accurately stored and labeled to the right language or reading level. Hence, following the CEFR* scale is key for publishers to match content to the right readability level....
As a commercial person working for an education publisher, we understand that you have to focus on content distribution and sales. Your bottom line could mean hitting a revenue target, saving X amount on costs, or saving X amount of time with more efficient publishing processes. However, hitting these targets isn’t always easy or necessarily sustainable. We...
All language learning materials are not created equally. Assigning the right learning level is usually under the mercy of a content editor or author. If content is improperly labeled into the wrong level then there will be drastic consequences for teachers and learners alike. Some language materials might be incorrectly classified as a higher level leaving...
Publishers are under tremendous pressure these days to digitize content. By managing millions of content items without any sufficient resources, content managers and authors are left astray doing extra work on what needs to be reproduced, what needs refreshed copy and which copy can be reused. In this blog post, we’ll investigate how the right integrations can...
Metadata is imperative for efficiently managing your educational content. There are thousands, if not millions, of books, texts, and different learning materials that need to be sorted, organized and documented in publishers’ content management systems (CMS). In this blog post, we’ll reveal how automated metadata-tagging can help you get the job done faster,...
EDIA has released a first version integration with Alfresco powered by the artificial intelligence engine - 360AI. Alfresco is a popular content management system used by a broad range of education publishers from Pearson, Cengage Learning, Oxford University Press and more. We have a webinar video to show how it works.
Last week EDIA was approached by ‘Tech for UK’ and ‘Best for Britain’ with a request to make the incredibly complex and bulky draft of the UK Withdrawal Agreement accessible and searchable for public use. EDIA has launched the website Brexearch.eu to help sort and filter through the draft agreement.
Our customer is the world’s leading language testing organization. Before, our customer used to struggle with minimizing average time spent on research for creating articles and utilising the right materials for the correct reading level. With 360AI, our customer decreased average time spent on content research up to 1.5 hours and at the same time, they increased...
At EDIA, we’ve conducted an administered survey and distributed it to our network of education professionals ranging from education publishers, universities, e-learning, and LMS providers. What we’ve discovered is that many of the publishers share the same problems.
The California Gold Rush started in the mid-19th-century when pioneers took out their picks and shovels and dug away for gold. Over 300,000 people came to California and took desperate measures in an attempt to capitalize on this opportunity. Like the gold rush, I see a metaphorical resemblance regarding artificial intelligence applied in the education world....
