Emerging Business Models in Education Provisioning: A Case Study on Providing Learning Support as Education-as-a-Service

International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy

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Loina Prifti¹  Marlene Knigge¹  Alexander Löffler¹  Sonja Hecht¹  Helmut Krcmar¹ 

[1] Technical University of Munich

关键词: Education-as-a-Service;    EaaS;    Educational Service;    Educational Offering;    Cloud Services;   

DOI  :  10.3991/ijep.v7i3.7337

来源: International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP), Kassel University Press

【 摘 要 】

This study aims to give a deeper understanding on emerging business models in the context of education. Industry 4.0/the Industrial Internet in general and especially recent advances in cloud computing enable a new kind of service offering in the education sector and lead to new business models for education: Education-as-a-Service (EaaS). Within EaaS, learning, and teaching contents are delivered as services. By combining a literature review with a qualitative case study, this paper makes a three-fold contribution to the field of business models in education: First, we provide a theoretical definition for a common understanding of EaaS. Second, we present the state-of-the-art research on this new paradigm. Third, in the case study we describe a “best practices” business model of an existing EaaS provider. These insights build a theoretical foundation for further research in this area. The paper concludes with a research agenda for further research in this emerging field.

【 授权许可】

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