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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| The Experience of Information Distribution in a Distance Learning University: The Spanish Case |
| Carmen de Pablos and M. Juliana López |
| Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain |
| Information and communication technologies offer us new possibilities to improve the way we develop our own |
| work as both educators and researchers. In this paper we have stressed the particular case of their application to a |
| Spanish Distance Learning University, the UNED, by emphasising the peculiarities of a distance learning traditional |
| university, different from a virtual university or a traditional one that wants to use these technologies. First we |
| offer a general vision about the University’s main objectives, main procedures and traditional information systems |
| used. Second we show the change of the situation when the University decided to implement new technological |
| tools as Internet and the WebCT. We pay a special attention to how these tools are trying to solve the specific |
| situations that a university with these special characteristics faces. |
| Keywords: distance learning, information and communication technologies, educational system, teach-ing style, |
ISSN
1535-07-03
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