The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) is the leading global membership organisation for the open and distance education community, and is open to institutions, educational authorities, commercial actors, and individuals. ICDE was founded in 1938 in Canada as the International Council for Correspondence Education and today has members from over 60 countries [...]

UNESCO’s mandate is to promote the free flow of ideas and knowledge. Its strategy is based on “knowledge” in the Information Society: information access, training and ethical issues; and “infostructure”: policies, networking and applications focussing on developing and transitional countries. Content in the Information Society: ethical issues: access, privacy, legal and societal aspects of information; [...]

The Open University is the world’s leading distance teaching university (http://www.open.ac.uk). Its mission is to promote educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality university education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and fulfill their potential. For the past three years the OU has been the top-ranked university in the UK governments’ national [...]

The European Foundation for Quality in eLearning (EFQUEL) is a Non-Profit Association which has its origins in three successful European eLearning projects, all in the field of quality in eLearning in Europe. The Federation is today’s Europe’s largest network on quality in eLearning and has members from over 18 members states and calls Europe’s largest [...]

Established in 2010, the Aalto University is a new university with centuries of experience. The Aalto University was created from the merger of three Finnish universities: The Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki University of Technology and The University of Art and Design Helsinki. The three schools of the Aalto University – the School of Economics, [...]

The CEPCEP (Study Centre on Peoples and Cultures) is a research centre of the Portuguese Catholic University, established in February 1983. CEPCEP pursues the development of culture, knowledge, and co-operation in the intellectual, artistic, spiritual and scientific fields, bringing together people from different walks in life and from various continents. In accordance with its charter, [...]

The University of Duisburg-Essen, the coordinator of the project, (http://www.uni-due.de) has 40,000 enrolled students and with 3,400 staff is one of the largest universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and an important employer in the region. The broad spectrum covered by teaching and research at UDE stretches from humanities, social sciences and economic sciences [...]