Educational technology is a means to enrich the learning experience. To that end, digital classrooms make use of advanced technological learning aids (such as interactive whiteboards and 3D printing) to boost student interactivity and to enhance knowledge retention. As a result, educational institutions have increased their budgets to include more collaboration, assessment, and enterprise resource planning systems in their delivery methods. Standardization of curricula across regions along with increased Internet and broadband penetration are also propelling market growth. Many educational technology vendors have emerged to bolster the teaching and learning experience through their hardware and software solutions. We note that companies in this market have overcome complex regulatory hurdles (across geographies) to expand their market shares.

Cloud computing is the use of computing resources where systems are connected by public or private networks to offer scalable infrastructure for applications and file storage. It offers a pool of resources that includes data storage, specified applications, and networks and computer processing power. Across regions, governments and private organizations are accelerating education digitization through various monetary and non-monetary initiatives. In an attempt to ensure equality in education and improve the quality of learning content, educational institutions have begun to implement services such as cloud computing and LMS. Within the education ecosystem, cloud computing helps students, faculty, and education organizations to use software and hardware managed by third-party service providers. Cloud computing can play a significant role in improving the quality of delivering higher education without compromising on the regulated and restricted learning environment.

Visual analytics is an emerging field of analytics that involves the use of visualization, data mining, and statistics to handle massive volumes of data. This is done with the help of human judgement by means of visual representations and interaction techniques. In visual analytics, instead of limiting the analysis to predefined metrics to examine data and study relations between parameters, data analysts are increasingly incorporating analytical reasoning and advanced computation with data visualization. business intelligence tools employ data in tabular forms. Whereas, visual analytics applies tools and practices, which make it easier for non-technical users to interact with the data through visual representations. It enables users to engage in analytical processes through visual representations, which are supported by computer graphics engines with integrated in-memory storage of data. This process facilitates rapid updates of multiple visualizations.

需求持续释放奠定行业长期增长基础。教育行业细分领域多，各类教育机构作为内容生产商居于产业链核心。据德勤估算，教育核心产业2015 年市场规模达1.64 亿元，预计2020 年将扩大至2.92 亿元，CAGR12.2%，其中民办幼儿园、K12 培训、职业培训等民办机构占主导的领域增速较快，民办教育市场空间持续打开。教育行业的成长逻辑清晰，当前主要处于需求拉动供给的阶段。需求端，升学就业压力促使教育刚需持续释放，同时叠加消费升级，构成行业增长的核心驱动力；供给端，优质资源始终稀缺，前政策、资本、技术三重因素为供给增加带来强劲催化，行业集中度和证券化程度尚低提供行业整合的广阔空间。

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1、STEAM 教育来源于美国。美国率先提出STEAM 教育理念，近年来不断出政策支持STEAM 教育推广，STEAM 教育得到广泛认可。2、STEAM 教育落地中国，前景光明。2015 年以来，我国政府相继出台文件，支持STEAM 教育发展，政策暖风频吹。

“1+1+2”：上位法律《民促法》、国务院文件《若干意见》、部门配套政策《登记细则》和《监管细则》的相继出台有望对我国民办教育未来发展起到长期促进作用