A Study On The Cost And Economies Of Scale Of E-learning

Online Education breakthrough time and space constraints of traditional education, with digital, multimedia, large amount of information and coverage and other characteristics. From the overall situation, China's online education market in general in its infancy. Enable the market to remain primarily driven by the rapid development of online education in higher education in the education market applications. With the party's congress proposed "development of distance education and continuing education, building learning for all, lifelong learning, learning society," the implementation of the requirements, the scale of China's Internet education market will be further developed. Different from the traditional higher education is that our network education resources and services, investment and construction is no country in the case of financial investment, through the market mechanism to develop. Therefore we can say that China's network of investment in education is almost entirely from the public, and its cost is all-online education learners your own. Thus, although at this stage in the enrollment, quality and other aspects of teaching by the education authority has a direct impact on policy, but the price, supply and demand, resource allocation and market competition so the market is almost in full compliance with the laws of the operating mechanism.To the network's long-term stable development of the education sector, a series of regulations and policies issued by the Ministry of Education began to limit the number of educational institutions enrollment network, the network of higher education, compared with the traditional, especially in terms of size, student-teacher ratio to compare the angles that the size of the network used in the traditional college education, teaching ability is overloaded, we must control the scale of online education to ensure the quality of the network. However, the cost structure of online education and the resulting economies of scale characteristics of the decision online education and traditional education are not comparable in size.In this paper, the cost economics perspective, the cost structure of online education, the cost advantages of online education and traditional education to compare the cost, the cost structure of online education to study economies of scale, from a theoretical point of proof of online education there is cost advantage and the resulting economies of scale. Running the network of educational institutions to ensure effective operation and quality improvement, network development for policy-makers provide the basis for macro planning of educationThe innovation of this paper is mainly reflected in the following areas:the use of economic analysis of the cost of online education, online education from a theoretical proof of the cost of education with the network of relations of scale; In this paper, the cost of the network of educational institutions study the introduction of Cobb-Douglas technology, and on this basis, the network derived cost function of education, and the cost of a basic form of analysis; In this study, the introduction of Kaye and Rumble in the "General University and Distance Education System cost structure "model, a simple analysis of the cost of the network characteristics of the education system.In the research process, to take a variety of research methods, mainly the following:standardized research methods, research process in this article are based mainly on microeconomic theory approach to the costs of online education reasoning, thinking, analysis and research. Deductive reasoning process that reflects the norms of the method and theory; comparative study of online education and traditional education, the cost structure and cost characteristics are compared to arrive at the cost advantage of online education; Quantitative and qualitative research to combine the method, this paper on the costs of online education to inspect, through the introduction of Cobb-Douglas technology to quantify the cost of online education function, the model also push to export part of the cost function is applied to net hospital costs and benefits of the analysis. However, some of the conclusions and the cost curve, are mainly used qualitative research methods, points out the causes of cost curves and other shapes.