Welcome to EADTU

The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) is the representative organisation of both the European open and distance learning universities and of the national consortia of higher education institutions active in the field of distance education and e-learning.

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Latest News

24 July 2010

Open Ed 2010: Early bird registration open (until 1 September 2010)

9 June 2010

Are you curious about the set up of the parallel sessions of our Annual Conference? Check the conference web site!

8 june 2010
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has opened a call for PhD students for the Doctoral Programme on the Information and Communication Society. Read more

31 May 2010

2010 May newsletter

29 April 2010
Click here for an overview of all the accepted conference presentations!

31 March 2010
Call for papers - extended deadline
Did you not had the opportunity to submit an abstract yet? Good news! We extended the deadline to 14 April 2010. Click here for the call for papers and the format specification of papers and abstract.

23 March 2010
EADTU President Prof. Carlos Reis has been re-elected as Rector of Universidade Aberta, Lisbao/Portugal. We wish Prof. Reis and his team all the best to remain at the leading edge in distance education and in international cooperation.

16 March 2010
Budapest-Vienna Declaration on the European Higher Education Area

11 March 2010

Call for papers for the Open Ed 2010 is open!

3 March 2010

2010 March newsletter

1 March 2010
The E-xcellence Associates in Quality Label web site is in the air!

20 February 2010
Download Book Publication CBVE Consortium: Cross Border Virtual Entrepreneurship: European funded research on flexible modality entrepreneurship

18 February 2010
There are three new leaflets available:
leaflet EADTU in general, EPICS leaflet and USBM leaflet.

12 January 2010
Two new task forces: Virtual Education Centres and Virtual Library. Read more

4 January 2010
We are pleased to announce that from
1 January 2010 Carlos Reis (Rector Universidade Aberta) will be president of EADTU. Read more

17 December 2009
Conference of the Rectors of the Italian Universities of Rome
In the framework of the "The Challenges of Quality in e-Learning Universities" Seminar, the results of the E-xcellence+ project will be illustrated. Watch the video.

17 December 2009
2009 December newsletter

15 December 2009
The 6th International ICE Conference on Education will be held in Samos, Greece on (July 8-10, 2010)

18 November 2009
New Book Publication CBVE Consortium, Cross Border Virtual Entrepreneurship: European funded research on flexible modality entrepreneurship.

26 October 2009
2010 call for proposals is published (Lifelong Learning Programme). Read more.

22 October 2009
On www.lesoir.be an article is published on (virtual) universities and free online learning. In this article EADTU is prominently mentioned. Read more

22 October 2009
Visit the OER HE project website

6 October 2009
October 2009 newsletter

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Conference 2010

27-29 September 2010

The EADTU's annual conference 2010, Zermatt Switzerland hosted by Universitäre Fernstudien Schweiz / Formation universitaire à distance, Brig, Switzerland.

Theme: 'Strategies and Business Models for Lifelong Learning'.

Conference 2009

7-10 June 2009

The 23rd ICDE/EADTU World Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, hosted by the Open Universiteit Nederland. Theme: "Flexible Education for All: Open - Global - Innovative".
Click here for the M-2009 conference web site.
Click here for the press release
Click here for the Maastricht Message

Calendar

25 February 2011
SIRUS Project, Joint network meeting (location to be confirmed)

25-26 November 2010
SIRUS, Project Thematic networks meeting II (location to be confirmed)

2-4 November 2010

Open ED, Open Education Conference, Barcelona (ES)

6-8 October 2010
IODL&ICEM 2010 Joint Conference and Media Days in Eskisehir (TR) to be hosted by Anadolu University.

27-29 September 2010
EADTU Annual Conference, Zermatt (CH)

13-15 September 2010
IMHE 2010 General Conference, Paris (FR)

9-10 September 2010
EPICS, second pilot meeting Rome (IT)

6-8 September 2010
NADEOSA International Conference, Potchefstroom (South Africa)

29 June - 2 July 2010
Conference: EISTA 2010, USA

8-10 July 2010

The 6th International ICE Conference on Education will be held in Samos (GR)

9-12 June 2010
EDEN annual conference, Valencia (ES)

3-4 June 2010
SIRUS Project, Thematic networks meeting, Lille (FR)

3-4 June 2010
International Education Forum and Exhibition "e-Learning Russia: e-Learning Opportunities Today", Moscow (RU)

11 June 2010
Benchmarking in European Higher Education Conference organised by ESMU, Brussels (BE)

26-28 May 2010
Conference: eLearning Africa 2010, Zambia

19-20 May 2010
EPICS, fourth partner meeting and stakeholders workshop, Madrid (ES)

16-18 May 2010
ACA annual conference, Cordoba (ES)

29 April 2010
Taskforce Virtual Education Centres (VEC), first meeting Madrid (ES)

27-28 April 2010
2nd all-partner meeting OER-HE, Madrid (ES)

19-20 April 2010
EADTU Board meeting, Rome (IT)

30 March 2010
EPICS, third partner meeting and stakeholders workshop, Brussels (BE)

25-26 March 2010
USBM, third partner meeting and stakeholders workshop, Brussels (BE)

24- 26 March 2010
Conference: Going Global, UK

22-23 March 2010
EPICS, first pilot meeting, Lisbon (PT)

19 March 2010
SIRUS, Project Launch event, Brussels (BE)

19 March 2010
Taskforce Libraries, first Academic Network meeting Aarhus (DK)

29 January 2010
MODERN Conference on Funding and the survey on "Training needs for leadership and management professions in European Higher Education Institutions", London UK.

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