Subject category:
Strategy and General Management
Published by:
INSEAD
Version: 04.2004
Length: 20 pages
Data source: Field research
Abstract
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) represents the case of a 'green- field university' (a new start-up from scratch), a distance e-based university, located in Barcelona (Spain), which was able to use the specific regional context of higher education policy in Catalunya to embark on a rather unique strategy and establish a unique organisational model through which many of the obstacles encountered by traditional universities seem to be overcome. In so doing, its relevance reaches far beyond the world of distance education or e-learning and the geographical area of Catalunya or Spain.
Location:
Industry:
Size:
1,032 employees
Other setting(s):
2003
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Abstract
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) represents the case of a 'green- field university' (a new start-up from scratch), a distance e-based university, located in Barcelona (Spain), which was able to use the specific regional context of higher education policy in Catalunya to embark on a rather unique strategy and establish a unique organisational model through which many of the obstacles encountered by traditional universities seem to be overcome. In so doing, its relevance reaches far beyond the world of distance education or e-learning and the geographical area of Catalunya or Spain.
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Location:
Industry:
Size:
1,032 employees
Other setting(s):
2003