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

Loina Prifti,Marlene Knigge,A. Löffler,Sonja Hecht,H. Krcmar

Published 2017 in Int. J. Eng. Pedagog.

ABSTRACT

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.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2017

  • Venue

    Int. J. Eng. Pedagog.

  • Publication date

    2017-09-29

  • Fields of study

    Business, Engineering, Education, Computer Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.3991/ijep.v7i3.7337
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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