A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

This volume was prepared by Constantin Mang while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes a short introduction and four self-contained chapters that focus on ICT...

The use of modern solutions specific to contemporary society, together with stakeholders’ involvement, will lead to a substantial increase in the practice-oriented approach of the teaching process. The objective of this paper is to present directions for the implementation of modern teaching...

The EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is proposing a far-reaching "European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services" (EUCS) to be established in the European Union (EU). According to the latest draft of August 2023, leaked by Politico in September 2023, the...

Die Verlagerung von On-Premise Infrastruktur und Workflows in die Cloud ist schon lange kein Trend mehr, sondern eine gängige und notwendige Unternehmenspraxis. Die Covid-19 Pandemie hat vielen Unternehmen gezeigt, was für eine zentrale Rolle die Nutzung von Cloud-Services heutzutage spielt....

Es stehen mittlerweile mehrere IaC-Tools zur Verfügung, um die Bereitstellung und Konfiguration der Cloud-Infrastruktur zu automatisieren. Mit der Fülle an Auswahlmöglichkeiten gestaltet sich der Auswahlprozess für das geeignete IaC-Tool zunehmend schwieriger. Zusätzlich mangelt es an einer...

Derzeit ist Cloud-Computing eine treibende Kraft in der aktuellen Digitalisierungsdebatte und verspricht Unternehmen jeder Größe viele Vorteile, wie z. B. geringere Einstiegskosten, größere Flexibilität und Skalierbarkeit sowie Kosteneinsparungen gegenüber klassischen IT-Lösungen....

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...

Cloud computing has recently shifted into the center of attention of Telecommuications Companies. Deutsche Telekom, for example, just announced the importance of cloud computing as one of their leading growth sectors (Deutsche Telekom Press Release, 2010). Also other important telecommunication...

This paper investigates the upcoming business model of online streaming services allowing music consumers either to subscribe to a service which provides free-of-charge access to streaming music and which is funded by advertising, or to pay a monthly flat fee in order to get ad-free access to...