Alliance opens new worlds of e-learning. Snippet: The newly formed World Alliance of Distance Education is a partnership between the UK's Open University, the Open University of Hong Kong, Canada's Athabasca University and Deakin University, which is one of Australia's biggest providers of distance education. ... "The idea is that a distance education student who's doing their degree through Deakin, for example, can get credit for units completed by distance through these other universities," he said. ... The article also has a few remarks about Universitas 21.
Canadian Virtual University - Université Virtuelle Canadienne There is also the Canadian Virtual University linking most of the universities in Canada who offer distance education on line. It allows students to select courses and programmes from any of the member universities thereby enlarging the curriculum. As well it allows students to have their programme in either official language (Eng/Fre) or a combination if the courses are suitable. http://www.cvu-uvc.ca/
