Open University of Catalonia (Spain)

www.uoc.edu/in3

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalunya) is an open and distance learning institution aimed at providing high quality university level education through the use of information and communication technology.
By combining the latest technologies available in telematics, personal computers and multimedia with both a solid pedagogical foundation and continuous evaluation, the UOC has built a Virtual Campus -- that is, an accredited and flourishing public university that functions almost entirely on-line -- to serve a virtual community of 34,000 students, 733 professors, 400 management staff. The Virtual Campus is therefore the virtual environment that provides the University members with learning activities, secretary services, library services, and socializing areas.

One of the main challenges that  UOC faces is not only to design an advanced new pedagogical model that takes full advantage of the information age, but to ensure that this model keeps pace with the continual changing possibilities of new technologies. As part of this effort the university participates in a variety of co-operative international research and development projects, and in 2000, has created an Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) aimed at promoting research in the many different areas of the Information Society, in particular e-learning.

Albert Sangrà
e- mail: asangra@uoc.edu
Phone: + 34 93 326 36 00

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