Governance principles and regulatory needs for a national digital education platform

IF 2.9 4区管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Public Policy and Administration Pub Date : 2023-09-20 DOI:10.1177/09520767231202327

Alexander Gleiß, Konrad Degen, Alexander Knoth, Key Pousttchi, Ulrike Lucke

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Abstract

The educational sector currently faces a massive digital transformation with various digital offerings entering the market. To provide some orientation in this transforming space, a national digital education platform (NDEP) is under development in Germany as part of a nationwide flagship project. On the one hand, in efficiently connecting the relevant stakeholders to each other and to value-adding education-related offerings, various benefits emerge. On the other hand, monopolising the educational sector and influencing the respective market through a state-controlled platform bears potential regulatory risks from misuse of power by the platform to malpractice by the users. Against this background, we aim to identify and systematise these potential drawbacks prior to the platform’s actual development and implementation. We pursue a qualitative, interpretivist approach for policy analysis, based on ten elite interviews and two workshops. Our results are threefold: (1) We capture the consolidated NDEP architecture; (2) We categorise the range of relevant functions and value propositions of the NDEP; (3) We derive 23 regulatory areas of conflict across the three building blocks that result from the potential ecosystem and function scope configurations of the NDEP. As a contribution to research, we shed new interdisciplinary light on the governance and infrastructure of public-private platforms that enable innovation and collaboration while integrating respective market segments. As a contribution to practice, we provide clear guidance for policy-makers in strategizing the development and governance of and through national digital platforms in education.

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国家数字教育平台的治理原则和监管需求

随着各种数字产品进入市场，教育部门目前面临着大规模的数字化转型。为了在这个转型的空间中提供一些方向，德国正在开发一个国家数字教育平台(NDEP)，作为全国旗舰项目的一部分。一方面，通过有效地将相关利益相关者彼此联系起来，并将其与增值教育相关的产品联系起来，可以产生各种好处。另一方面，通过国家控制的平台垄断教育行业并影响相应的市场，会带来平台滥用权力、用户不当行为等潜在的监管风险。在这种背景下，我们的目标是在平台的实际开发和实现之前识别和系统化这些潜在的缺点。我们在十次精英访谈和两次研讨会的基础上，追求定性的、解释主义的政策分析方法。我们的结果有三个方面:(1)我们捕获了整合的NDEP架构;(2)我们对NDEP的相关功能和价值主张进行了分类;(3)我们从NDEP的潜在生态系统和功能范围配置中得出了跨三个构建块的23个冲突监管领域。作为对研究的贡献，我们为公私平台的治理和基础设施提供了新的跨学科视角，从而在整合各自细分市场的同时实现创新和协作。作为对实践的贡献，我们为政策制定者提供了明确的指导，以制定国家教育数字平台的发展和治理战略。

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Public Policy and Administration PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-

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11.30

自引率

6.50%

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审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Public Policy and Administration is the journal of the UK Joint University Council (JUC) Public Administration Committee (PAC). The journal aims to publish original peer-reviewed material within the broad field of public policy and administration. This includes recent developments in research, scholarship and practice within public policy, public administration, government, public management, administrative theory, administrative history, and administrative politics. The journal seeks to foster a pluralistic approach to the study of public policy and administration. International in readership, Public Policy and Administration welcomes submissions for anywhere in the world, from both academic and practitioner communities.