Handbook of Open Universities Around the World. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)

The Handbook of Open Universities Around the World is the first collection to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of open universities internationally. Over 80 open universities have been established across five continents to provide a distance-orientated, class-inclusive, and high-quality education for learners left behind by existing formal systems for higher and continuing education and lifelong learning. This mission has been continually reshaped by major developments in open education, learning technologies, and online social networking, as well as by the evolution of specific concerns such as the massification of education, employability, financial trends, artificial intelligence, and development agendas on the regional, national, and global levels.

UNIR (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja) was founded in 2009, with the goal of providing high-quality online higher education in Spanish, as well as training new graduates with the knowledge, skills, and competencies demanded by today’s society. In the short years after its foundation, the University has rapidly grown and established itself as a reference in online higher education, especially in the Spanish-speaking world.

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