Education On-demand

Demand in Higher Education

Demand for Education in China

After discussing the sources of funding of education in China this paper offers an explanation of the quantitative changes in education spending by the framework of demand analysis, including the changes in the ratio of educational funding to GDP in the period 1991-2002. Income effect is estimated mainly by using cross-provincial data, while time series data are used to estimate the price effec...

Asynchronous Collaboration Around Multimedia Applied to On-Demand Education

Multimedia content is a central component of on-demand training and education delivered over the World Wide Web. Supporting asynchronous collaboration around educational multimedia is potentially a significant tool for delivering online educational content effectively. A multimedia annotation system tightly integrated with email provides a powerful platform on which to base such functionality. ...

Running head: TASK-SELECTION ADVICE IN ON-DEMAND EDUCATION

Elisabeth M. C. Taminiau, Liesbeth Kester, Gemma Corbalan, Stephen M. Alessi, Erling Moxnes, Wim H. Gijselaers, Paul A. Kirschner, Jeroen J. G. Van Merriënboer a Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open University of The Netherlands b The Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development c College of Education, The University of Iowa, d Department of Geography, University of Bergen e ...

Endogenous fluctuations in the demand for education

Enrolment rates to higher education reveal quite large variation over time which cannot be explained by productivity shocks alone. We develop a human capital investment model in an overlapping generations framework that features endogenous fluctuations in the demand for education. Agents are heterogeneous in their beliefs about future wage differentials. An evolutionary competition between the ...