UOC - Open University of Catalonia - the Global Online University Promotes a Project to Offer Contents to Everyone Without Restrictions

Barcelona, Spain, September 24, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The Open University of Catalonia - The Global Online University - will have a collection of digital documents for promotion of the information society that will be able to be consulted from any device and will be accessible to all kinds of people. With support from the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, the Open University has launched the e-Alquimia project, an initiative that allows creation of a portal of digital contents with the possibility of collaborative editing managed with free software.

The project already disposes of some forty subject materials with Creative Commons licenses, in other words, public and open to any person and institution. These and additional documents will make up part of the process of creation, multilingual editing and storage in a resources portal. All of these contents can be output with any device, whether it is a computer or other mobile and multimedia devices (telephone, PDA, iPOD, electronic book...), as well as apparatus for people with physical or sensorial disabilities.

Similarly, methodologies will be created in the e-Alquimia project that will also allow collaborative and multilingual editing of digital contents and multimedia. All of this will be possible thanks to tools created with free software technology.

UOC - Open University of Catalonia - The Global Online University, offers online courses in the languages English, Spanish, Catalan and French. For more information about the online courses offered by UOC visit the website TheGlobalOnlineUniversityUocEdu. For individual questions or enquiries, contact the training advisor team at +34 93 326 30 00, or send an e-mail to: queries@uoc.edu

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