Preface This Book Consists of Five Sections. Section 1, " Learning Management and Administration, " Opens With

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is seamlessly integrated computer-based application used to manage internal and external resources, including tangible assets, financial resources, materials, and human resources covering all the functions and processes of an enterprise/institution. Education institutions and universities all over the world are facing challenges in designing robust Enterprise Resource Planning applications and methodologies to align themselves with the expectations of students and other stakeholders. The existing standard Enterprise Resource Planning solutions are proprietary, inflexible, and expensive to implement in academia. Thus, there is a growing demand for action-oriented research to provide insights into the challenges, issues, and solutions related to the design, development, implementation, and management of education institutions’ resources through Enterprise Resource Planning applications. Education sector, being a huge service sector and having a high social and economic impact value with its unique set of challenges, has a high potential for using ERP application. Hence, the editors gathered the recently completed and ongoing research in this field and shared them with other researchers. Each researcher has brought some fresh insights and experiences to ERP applications for the education sector. All the chapters were peer-reviewed before they were accepted. This book suggests Enterprise Resource Planning frameworks for the academic sector along with their applications and methodologies to improve effectiveness and efficiency of processes including teaching-learning processes, and to enhance student-centric and stakeholders related services. This book helps the reader in gaining a good insight into various aspects of (a) process automation, (b) reduction of process cycle time, and (c) prompt and better service to all stake-holders.