The University of Europe: accessible to all
By making more content available to more students, open content learning could change the face of higher education in Europe forever
* Mandy Garner guardian.co.uk
Universities in Europe are looking to embrace a new form of learning, called open content, which could blow away the division between university students and the rest of the population.
In the UK, the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) and the Higher Education Academy are launching a £5.7m pilot scheme to investigate the impact of open content and to look at issues of how to contextualise existing online material so anyone can make sense of it. Several European academics are already experimenting and the European Commission has expressed interest. More »
Tags: e-skills, e-university
