Are Payments The Key To A Bright Future For Education Platforms?
The world of education has transformed in recent years. The days of pen, paper, chalk, and chalkboard are long gone. This is the information age, and it’s revolutionizing the way students learn and teachers teach.
Driven by the ever-changing needs of students, parents, and teachers, as well as schools and universities, education is increasingly being delivered online and through smart devices, via cloud-based “software-as-a-service” (SaaS) “education management platforms”.
These are capable of performing a wide variety of functions, from boosting engagement between teachers and the parents of students, to managing the day-to-day operations of a school or college, to delivering the education – so-called “eLearning platforms”. The market for education software is growing fast, predicted to reach more than $6 billion by 2020.
As you can read in the eBook Are Payments The Key To A Bright Future For Education Platforms?, there are many long-term players in this space that are continuing to innovate. The rise of these online and mobile platforms presents a host of exciting opportunities for education providers in North America and around the world looking to enhance business efficiency for teachers and staff, or to improve the user experience for their students or parents. Nevertheless, the implementation of these platforms poses challenges – particularly when it comes to accepting payment from students or parents for using the services.
If they aren’t implemented properly by the people creating the education platform, payments can cause friction in the user experience, leading to customer dissatisfaction and potential abandonment of the platform as an educational tool.
With this in mind, it’s more important than ever for the people behind education management platforms to understand the pressures facing both education providers and their students, particularly when it comes to payments.
It’s time for them to go back to school to learn how the payment solutions they use can help them optimize the service they offer to education providers and students. In doing so, they can ensure they remain top of the class.
About The eBook
So, how will integrating payments allow you to scale and drive even more users? The answer lies in Are Payments The Key To A Bright Future For Education Platforms?. Here are its key chapters:
- Introduction
How are education platforms is revolutionizing the way students learn, teachers teach, and schools operate? - The eLearning arena
Education platforms present exciting opportunities for education providers, but are there any challenges involved in their implementation? - Testing times for educators, scope for platforms
When it comes to finances and payments, the education landscape in North America is set to face some key challenges in the coming years. How can they be overcome? - Benefiting from the changing education landscape
Choosing the most suitable payment system is vital to ensure a platform can offer the best possible user experience, without any excessive barriers. But what should platforms look out for? - Ready to graduate
To achieve all of this potential, however, platforms need to ensure they continue to provide the best possible experience for users. Payment systems hold the key.
All eLearning professionals are pretty familiar with challenges keep coming up. It takes skills and knowledge to get the best out of them, and this applies to the field of integrating payments as well. If you’re interested in learning how integrating payments will allow you to scale and drive more users, download the eBook Are Payments The Key To A Bright Future For Education Platforms? today.
