{"id":21,"date":"2018-10-04T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T04:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2018-10-04T22:10:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T05:10:47","slug":"face-4-global-target","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/face-4-global-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Face 4: Global Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While IXL has a prominent foothold in American education, the online resource has expanded into educational markets around the world and is currently used in more than 190 countries. \u00a0There are currently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.ixl.com\/international\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">14 unique editions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of IXL-math to meet the specific educational requirements of various countries around the world. \u00a0There are six editions catering the anglophone markets of the US, Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. \u00a0Three editions cater non-anglophone European markets of Germany, Spain, and France. IXL has also developed editions for non-western markets including Singapore, Japan, India, Brazil, and South Africa. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we can see, IXL has expanded beyond the anglophone market and into regions that have relatively poor English language skills and either significantly high financial or human capital. \u00a0It is interesting to note that IXL has not yet expanded into more affluent European countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where English is frequently taught as a second language and readily used and understood. \u00a0It is equally interesting that Japan is the only oriental market not offered in English. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is significant potential for IXL to enter new markets around the world. \u00a0One would assume IXL has strongly considered breaking into either the Chinese or Korean market but deemed them currently unviable for one reason or another. \u00a0My three years of experience teaching in China lead me to beleive that adaptive personalized learning in these countries continues to be less desirable than traditional didactic approaches within math education. There is considerable potential for IXL to expand its offerings in the following languages: Mandarin, Arabic, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Bengali and Hindi. \u00a0Collectively, the native speakers of these languages compose well over a third of the world population (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wikipedia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), have exhibited growing economies and improved investments in education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/files\/2018\/10\/Untitled-picture-300x245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/files\/2018\/10\/Untitled-picture-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/files\/2018\/10\/Untitled-picture-624x509.png 624w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/files\/2018\/10\/Untitled-picture.png 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/files\/2018\/10\/Untitled-picture-1-300x151.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/files\/2018\/10\/Untitled-picture-1-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/files\/2018\/10\/Untitled-picture-1-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/files\/2018\/10\/Untitled-picture-1-1024x515.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/files\/2018\/10\/Untitled-picture-1-624x314.png 624w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/files\/2018\/10\/Untitled-picture-1.png 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Up Next: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/side-5-market-status\/\">Market Status<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/sample-page\/\">Home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While IXL has a prominent foothold in American education, the online resource has expanded into educational markets around the world and is currently used in more than 190 countries. \u00a0There are currently 14 unique editions of IXL-math to meet the specific educational requirements of various countries around the world. \u00a0There are six editions catering the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47611,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ixlanalystreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}