This is the leading question of the book chapter “Opening Up Education and the OpenupEd initiative” in a recently published book “MOOCs and Open Education Around the World”, edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.

This study carried out on behalf of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) by a team coordinated by the European Association for Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) is a must-read for any person concerned with quality in online, open and flexible higher education.

Student success in open, distance and e-learning is a report by Alan Tait of The Open University, UK for ICDE, drawing on research findings from a survey of 53 ICDE member institutions.

On 23 April 2015, the Board of EADTU organised the third special Summit on "innovating higher education by new modes of teaching and learning" in Brussels with the support of the European Commission.

This report addresses the question how governments should allocate funding in order to add more value to the educational system through technology.

THE ONLINE, OPEN AND FLEXIBLE HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Transforming higher education in the 21st Century

EADTU has started the EMPOWERing universities initiative to support policy reform in European higher education with regard to the transition to new modes of teaching and learning and supporting innovation in higher education practices.

During the HOME conference ‘Mapping the European MOOC Territory’, participating institutions, projects and associations drafted a statement on how European institutions, governments and the European commission should react on the opportunities and threats of MOOCs.

The ECO project (ECO: Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning) ECO will launch a course on how to design MOOCs on 30 March 2015.

Yesterday EADTU organised the first of four SEQUENT online consultation sessions. This first session has covered Chapters 1 and 4 on Strategic Management and Course Delivery of the E-xcellence Manual.