The professionalization of tools and practices, in addition tothe consolidation of academic and practical knowledge, has been amajor continuing issue throughout these years. The annualconferences of the largest European professional community indistance and e-learning have been setting the landmarks in thisprocess. The selection from this unique knowledge pool demonstratesthe deepening and consolidation of knowledge and experience.
This book presents the developments in the field of open, distance and e-learning, through new technologies, methodologiesand tools, which have profoundly changed the paradigms, scenariosand values at all levels of education over the last decade.