Twelve key features of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) which, taken together, are game changing:
- Fully online since its inception in 1996; all programs will be available through mobile devices within two years
- Full range of programs (undergraduate, masters, Ph.D.s, non-credit) all fully online
- Online course design based on a strong pedagogical model
- Consistent model of online course development and delivery across the university
- Teaching done mainly by 3,500 professors (counsellors) from traditional universities working for UOC on a part-time basis
- All courses offered in Catalan and Spanish (Castellano); some graduate programs also in English
- Virtual Campus designed in-house to support both fully online teaching and administration
- Unique public-private financial model. Annual operating budget: 100 million euros
- Locally and nationally accredited
- 60,000 enrollments, which have doubled over the last seven years; 35,000 graduates to date; many international students (mainly from Latin America)
- Strategic approach to innovation through an online learning research centre, and an academic innovation division
- All academic research focused on the information society
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