Towards Education 4.0: A Holistic Approach for Performance Evaluation of German and Thai Universities

This paper presents a framework to evaluate the readiness and performance of educational systems concerning Education 4.0. The proposed framework integrates the concept of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methods. Pairwise comparisons were conducted by experts in education and academic areas from Germany and Thailand. After that, the DEA method was used to determine the performance value based on selected criteria. The result showcases the benchmark values of various universities from both Germany and Thailand. Overall both countries demonstrate good performance regarding Education 4.0. Nonetheless, one university from each country shows lower performance which could be improved by focusing more on the area of technology skills and personalized learning. The result of this paper contributes to improving the process of evaluating the performance and readiness of universities towards Education 4.0.