Competition Law and Autonomous Education Ecosystems

1. Introduction

An autonomous education ecosystem is a technologically integrated education environment in which schools, universities, students, teachers, parents, education platforms, learning-management systems, assessment providers, digital libraries, identity systems, payment services, student-information systems, and artificial-intelligence tools interact through a common digital infrastructure.

From a competition-law perspective, the principal concern is that an ecosystem operator may acquire market power across several interconnected education markets and use that power in one market to restrict competition in another.

Typical competition concerns include: