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Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, p. 387-398

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55705-2_31

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Towards Economic Models for MOOC Pricing Strategy Design

Book chapter published in 2017 by Yongzheng Jia, Zhengyang Song, Xiaolan Bai, Wei Xu
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Abstract

MOOCs have brought unprecedented opportunities of making high-quality courses accessible to everybody. However, from the business point of view, MOOCs are often challenged for lacking of sustainable business models, and academic research for marketing strategies of MOOCs is also a blind spot currently. In this work, we try to formulate the business models and pricing strategies in a structured and scientific way. Based on both theoretical research and real marketing data analysis from a MOOC platform, we present the insights of the pricing strategies for existing MOOC markets. We focus on the pricing strategies for verified certificates in the B2C markets, and also give ideas of modeling the course sub-licensing services in B2B markets.