In the General Assembly meeting of 25 October 2017 in Milton Keynes (UK) Alejandro Tiana Ferrer was elected as president of the EADTU for a two year period.
We thank Anja Oskamp (Open Universiteit of The Netherlands) for her dedicated work as president of the EADTU for the past four years.

EADTU contributed to the 2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress ‘OER for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: From Commitment to Action,’ which took place from 18-20 September 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

On 21-22 September, the EADTU-ENQA Peer Learning Activity (PLA) on Quality Assurance in blended and online education took place in Brussels...

Open and flexible distance higher education institutions by their inclusive pedagogical and organisational models are particularly suitable for students like refugees and migrants. They further create opportunities for refugees/ migrants of which several are specifically set-up for them. EADTU now published a list of related actions by its members.

The new Postgraduate Program of the Hellenic Open University Language Education for Refugees and Migrants (LRM) aims to provide specialized pedagogical knowledge to Greek and international teachers concerning learning and teaching second language to children and adults with a refugee or migrant background.

The European Commission has updated its Higher Education (HE) agenda. This new strategy stresses the importance of an inclusive European higher education system.

SUNY Empire State College’s “Revisioning Adult Higher Education” webinar series will return on three Mondays in June with three internationally-known presenters.

Learning to Learn: Beyond 2020
1st June, 2017 - 09:30 to 16:30
Pretoria building, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen

UNINETTUNO is among the five best Universities, furthermore the only distance university that got the grade “B – fully satisfactory” by the evaluation of Italian Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes.

Many universities are involved in the field of Instructional Design and Technology (IDT). The journal on Educational Technology Research and Development published an article on this, examining the academic productivity of universities in IDT.