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Objectives
The Association is based upon the knowledge and the experience that its international members have attained, with a view to the development and the use of innovative methodologies and technologies, in order to:
- Develop and support the learning sector, by providing a shared platform for intercultural research and cooperation between institutions/networks and other agencies, in close cooperation with national and international bodies
- Adopt a network approach suitable for overcoming diversities by stimulating a critical reflection of current research macro lines and adapting them to the different societies and cultures needs fulfilment
- Encourage the collaboration between public and private bodies in the fields of ODL and e-learning
- Provide advisory services to national and international, governmental and non-governmental bodies on education and training, through the ODL and e-learning systems
- Make information concerning the ODL and e-learning availability, whenever possible, in cooperation with the several member institutions
- Provide assistance for the development and consolidation of regional and national ODL and e-learning networks, programmes and new initiatives at global level
- Participate in global cooperation and research initiatives and establish formal relations with other international bodies or institutions, operating in different sectors of the latest-generation research (biotechnologies, biomedicine, robotics, micro-robotics)
- Promote and enhance experiences and resources in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) already existing worldwide, which are able to promote innovative processes and models of knowledge transfer
- Encourage and help member bodies to set up collaborative projects and to find appropriate sponsors for such projects
- Encourage the development of best practices and quality standards with an emphasis on quality assessment and certification of trans-national education, which will provide evaluation systems for distance education and e-learning processes and products
- Develop e-accessibility in order to make the access to the new information and communication technologies easier and to shape a knowledge society, also accessible to the disabled
- Activate a permanent distance communication system through thematic forums, where people, institutions and associations may establish a continuous professional interaction
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