About AU:
Athabasca University (AU), established in 1970, is Canada’s most famous public university for open and online education. AU is dedicated to increasing the equality of educational opportunity for adult learners, both in Canada and worldwide.
Brief Introduction:
As one of the three Baltic states, Latvia is home to rich cultural and tourism resources. Riga, which lies on the Gulf of Riga, is the capital city and a major political, economic, and cultural centre of Latvia. It is also one of Beijing’s “friendship cities”. The role of the Riga City Council’s Education, Culture, and Sports Department is to implement policies in the fields of education, culture, and sports as well as monitoring the operation of various educational, cultural, and sports and leisure institutions under the jurisdiction of the Riga City Council.
Brief Introduction:
With headquarters located in Bucharest, Romania, the Romanian Wine Industry Alliance Group was founded with the support of the Romanian government in 2007 with the goal of uniting major wine producers in Romania and Europe and spreading wine culture.
About CNED:
Established in 1939, the Centre national d'enseignement à distance (CNED) is a French public educational institution under the French Ministry of Education, dedicated to providing distance learning material. Its headquarters are in Poitiers, the capital of the department of Vienne. The CNED has established 130 enrollment offices (tutoring centres) and set up 8 branches to provide distance education for learners of different majors.
About EDEN:
Established in 1991 as a non-profit organization, the European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) is the most influential institution dedicated to promote European distance and e-learning. EDEN aims to share knowledge, improve understanding about distance and e-learning and promote policy and practice across the whole of Europe and beyond.
About OUJ:
The Open University of Japan (OUJ) was founded in 1983 under the joint auspices of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. It is an entity with special legal personality status headquartered in Chiba-ken.
About ICDE:
The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) was founded in 1938 in Canada as the International Council for Correspondence Education and today has members from over 60 countries worldwide.
About AAOU:
Founded in 1987, the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) is a non-profit academic organization for open universities in Asia. As of October 2010, the AAOU has 48 official members, 22 associate members and 2 individual members.
About the OUUK:
Officially founded in 1971 with the grant of a UK royal charter, the Open University, UK (OUUK) is an independent, autonomous national institution of higher education. It is the largest university in the UK and is eligible to confer all kinds of degrees.
About MSU:
Michigan State University (MSU) is a public university located in East Lansing, Michigan State, USA. Founded in 1862, it was the first university established according to the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. MSU is not only famous for education, agriculture and communication theory, but also for its vanguard role in the research of packaging and musical therapy.