E-learning in Cyprus is still developing, with most institutions offering it only as a supplement to traditional degrees. The Cyprus Productivity Centre provides additional e-learning training programs tailored to business needs. Several organizations participate in EU-funded e-learning projects. Private schools have embraced ICT more than public schools. The main institutions involved in e-learning are Intercollege, CARDET, the University of Cyprus, and the Open University of Cyprus.

1. South Europe

2. E-learning Distance Education
in Cyprus

3. Ε-learning courses in Cyprus are
very weakly developed. It is primarily
offered as a supplement to traditional
degrees. Several organizations participate
in EU funded projects focusing on e-
learning.
On several occasions institutions in
Cyprus collaborate with other
international organisations in offering
online degrees.

4. Compulsory and Higher Education
Use of ICT and e-learning in public schools is in an embryonic state
content but in private schools ICT use has been embraced on a large scale. They
use ICT for supporting their pupils in different aspects of learning.
Cyprus Productivity Centre
The Cyprus Productivity Centre (CPC) was established in 1963 by the
Cyprus Government, with assistance from the United Nations Development
Program and the International Labour Office. It provides additional support to
the traditional training programs and designs e-learning training programs in
Greek which are tailor-made so as to meet specific needs of the business
community in Cyprus.
Cyprus e-Learning 2005: Expertise and Business Partnership (Cyprus Portal)
The portal aims to promote the e-Europe initiative and especially the
lifelong learning, encourage universal access to global education and help
people, particularly youth, acquire the qualifications and skills they need to
realise the benefits of the knowledge society.

5. HΕ Ιnstitutions with E-learning Activity
 Intercollege
www.intercollege.ac.cy
 CARDET
(Center for the
Advancement of Research
and Development in
Educational Technology)
www.cardet.org
 University of Cyprus
www.ucy.ac.cy
 Open University of
Cyprus

6. Elearning Distance Education
in Greece

7. Hellenic Open University
Adult distance education in
Greece became initially available in
1998 with the founding of the
Hellenic Open University (EAP)
(www.eap.gr). The university also
offers full Master’s and PhD degrees.
All courses are delivered exclusively
at distance.
Students communicate with
professors via traditional (courier,
telephone) and newer (fax, e-mail)
forms of distance communication.

8. E-learning platforms in HE Institutions in Greece
 Ifigenia - Distance Education
Courses - The University of Crete
(www.uoc.gr).
 Computer Networks and
Telematics Applications Lab
(CONTA) by University of
Macedonia (www.uom.gr) – offers
online seminars on Telematic
Applications &Computer Networks,
Information Systems in Education
and Web-based Tele-Education.

9. Vocational E-learning Training Centres
 Tele-education Centre by Athens University of Economics and Business
(www.stat-athens.aueb.gr/en/frames.htm)
 Vocational Training Centre by Panteion University (www.panteion.gr/uk)
Vocational Training Centre - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
(www.uoa.gr).

10. E-learning Distance Education
in Italy

11. Sfera
• In 1999, Enel (power and gas provider) has
created Sfera, a knowledge provider for adult
learning and human resources improvement.
• The learning methods are based on editorial
instruments (accessible online) but also on
tutoring and mentoring online, virtual classrooms,
forum, chat and newsgroup.
• The e-learning delivery is based on a synchronous
shared method because it is based partly on self-
training, partly on virtual classrooms, tutoring
interaction, online whiteboards, online tests,
conferences, forum and chat.

12. • The UniversitàTelematica
“GuglielmoMarconi” is the first
Athenaeum in Italy which follows the
“Open University” model, already
attended in many European Countries.
• Being public,but not a state body,
recognized by the Ministry of Education,
University and Research (MIUR -M.D. 1
March 2004), it adopts innovating
learning modalities by developing
suitable research strategies for most
advanced technological solutions and by
integrating non
Università Telematica Guglielmo Marconi

13. The University of Trento provides some
services in order to support the lecturers
in online course design. These services
are addressed to:
• undergraduate and postgraduate
students (on campus, distant and
working)
• teachers and tutors
• lifelong education
The institution provides three types of e-
learning formats:
• web-enhanced courses (in order to
support the traditional face-to-face
lectures);
• blended courses (lectures are partly
face-to-face and partly online);
• entirely online courses.
Università di Trento

14. • This institution has been founded as an
initiative of the Università Gabriele
d’Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara and of the
foundation that carries the same name.
UNIDAV provides 5 graduate programmes
that sum a total number of about 120
courses. In addition to that there are 6
master programmes that can be divided
into more than 100 single courses or
modules.
• The university’s platform called “Open
Learning Center” is based on the “oracle
iLearning” application.
Università Telematica Leonardo da Vinci

15. Scuola IaD – Università di Roma Tor Vergata
• The institution has offered online courses since 2001.
• Scuola IaD is an interfaculty Unit of University of Rome Tor
Vergata. It provides a wide range of online education courses
(first cycle degrees, master, Continuing Education in Medicine,
IT education as ECDL, EUCIP, IT administrator and Linux and
adult continuous education).
• Scuola IaD can be considered a megaprovider of e-learning.
Nettuno-Network per l’Università Ovunque
• Promoted in 1992 by the Ministry of the University and
Scientific and Technological Research, NETTUNO is a Distance
University that starts off from traditional universities.
• Distance Teaching Method:
– Academic lessons (video lessons broadcast on satellite
television channels RAI NETTUNO SAT 1 and RAI NETTUNO
SAT 2 and on the Internet via satellite).
– Practical exercises on the Internet via satellite even through
virtual laboratories.
– Distance tutoring by audio and video chat, forum and
videoconferencing.

16. Università degli Studi Di Milano
• The Milan University (Milano Statale) provides a
“Piattaforma Ateneo” called “Ariel”.
• This portal currently displays a variety of programmes and
courses that are mainly based on blended learning approaches.
Università Bocconi (Milano)
• This university calls its e-learning Project “B-Learning” and uses
“Lotus Learning Space” by IBM as a learning platform. The
information given about the e-learning efforts undertaken by
UNIBOCCONI indicates that this institution uses ICT exclusively
• to support traditional learning scenarios.
• Università Bocconi cannot be considered a megaprovider of e-
learning.
Politecnico di Milano
• The portal “COL” (Corsi Online) exists since 1998 and is a free
service that publishes the resources related to the face-to-face
courses offered by the university. It also provides some
communication tools in order to improve and facilitate contact
between students and teachers.

17. Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
• The Naples University offers online services over a portal
called DoL – Didattica online.These services have the unique
objective to enhance face-to-face courses. UNINA is therefore
not a megaprovider of e-learning.
Politecnico di Torino
• Politecnico di Torino currently offers 7 graduate programmes
fully online (6 in 2004/05).

18. E-learning Distance Education
in Malta

19. • The current supply of e-learning courses in
Malta is very weakly developed. There are
three public providers involved with e-
learning of which one, the University of
Malta, is still developing its first online
modules. The other two players are the
Department of Further Studies and Adult
Education and the Ministry of Investments,
Industry and Information Technology. Each
of them offers only one to two online
courses.
• No megaprovider of e-learning could be
identified in Malta.

20. E-learning Distance Education
in Portugal

21. Universidade do Porto
The institution (www.up.pt)
has currently about 28,000 students
at 15 different university schools or
faculties. The main objective has
always been to provide on-campus
students with an additional channel
alongside face-to- face studies.
Presently the University of
Porto offers about 70 online
courses for approximately 5,000
students.

22. Universidade do Minho
The University of Minho
(www.tecminho.pt) uses WebCT
to provide online courses to
their graduate students. The e-
Learning-Center TecMinho
itself is a University Interface
and deals with “Continuous
Training Courses” for on-
campus and off-campus targets
(having around 10 e-learning
courses per year).

23. Universidade Aberta
Universidade Aberta, the
Portuguese ODL state university, is
currently offering about 100 post-
graduate courses online, on a totally
virtual mode.
Universidade Aberta is also on
the process of converting its ODL
graduation courses to e-learning.
Consequently, it’s expected by the
end of the decade about 10,000
students will enroll every year on an
e-learning or online course by
Universidade Aberta.

24. E-learning Distance Education
in Spain

25. E-learning and Leading HE Institutions in
Spain
E-learning in Spain is at an
initial phase of development. There is
no specific policy on the part of the
central government or the regional
administrations to promote e-
learning; however, there are more
generic and horizontal plans that
indirectly promote e-learning
projects.

26. Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia – UNED
The UNED (www.uned.es)
is a distance teaching public
university created in 1972. The
institution started to use WebCT.
Later it developed an open
source platform under the name
of aLF (www.innova.uned.es).
The UNED has more than
180,000 students and declares
itself the university with the
largest number of online courses
in Spain.

27. Universidad de La Laguna
The Universidad de La
Laguna uses MOODLE as
its VLE. Currently about 150
online courses offered.
(www.ull.es)
(www.campusvirtual.ull.es).

28. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The University (www.ulpgc.es)
offers over the Virtual Campus 5 full
degrees, 7 master programmes, 23
specialization programmes that sum a
total number of more than 450 online
courses.

29. Universidad Politécnica de València
The “Área de Universidad
Politécnica Abierta (AUPA)” is
the university’s institution in
charge of promoting the use of
ICT in teaching. It encourages
the use of the VLE, offers
teacher’s training to improve
online teaching and also detects
educational and technical needs
in the context of e-learning.
Currently there are almost
18.000 postgraduate online
students that can enroll in more
than 250 courses.

30. Universitat de Barcelona Virtual
The UB-virtual is the result
of a joint initiative carried out
by “Universitat de Barcelona”
and Caixa Catalunya and
Santander Central Hispano, two
important banks, that represent
the private part of the operation.
The UB-virtual as the
distance learning part of the
joint institution offers a large
number of online courses (over
60 master programs, almost 100
certificate online courses, more
than 200 extension university
diplomas) onWebCT.

31. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
The Open University of
Catalonia (www.uoc.edu) was
created in 1994 and is the first
entirely virtual university
worldwide.
Its educational activity has
been frequently awarded
(educational quality, best online
and distance university, world’s
best digital opportunity, best
European educational initiative)
and has a constant and sustained
organic growth.

32. CEPADE – Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid (UPM)
CEPADE (www.cepade.es) -
Centro de Estudios de Postgrado de
Administración de Empresas – (Centre
of postgraduate studies of company
management) was founded in 1971 to
cover an increasing demand of
knowledge in the field of company
management. CEPADE belongs
administratively to FGUPM (Fundación
General de la Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid, a foundation created with
the aim to promote science, culture and
education within the general objectives
of the UPM) but is academically
integrated in the UPM. As a result, all
CEPADE degrees are in fact
postgraduate degrees by the UPM.