The last advances in different research lines, directly or indirectly related with the Higher Distance Education will allow, in a next future, the effective creation of a new European University in which some of the promises that the technology has proposed during the last years, will be completed: 1. Creation of a learning common framework that allows a real an effective collaboration among the different learning centres and agents. In this sense, some standardisation initiatives will allow in an immediate future: 1.1 To create a common and shared knowledge base tha allows a personalise access to the learning contents with independence of their origir, language or format (learning contents sharing, multilingual learning contents) 1.2 To create re-usable contents accessible from any 1earning centre that will allow generating new contents joining pieces created by different authors and tools (Learning Objects). 1.3 To create the Universal Curriculum Vitae valid anc recognised in any part of the world that allows knowing the students and professors skills with independence of the teaching centres (dynamic profiling) 2. Creation of a new economy, with strong potential of growth, based on the trade of Learning Objects (eLearning Economy), a subset of a new knowledge-based economy. In this sense, the new technologies relative to the security, confidentiality and electronic payment will allow to distribute pedagogic contents in a secure way respecting the intellectual property rights. 3. Access to the education from any place, at any time with any media (ubiquitous Learning, mobile eLearning ― mLearning -, Just in Time reaching ― JITT) in a natural, intuitive and personalised way (adaptive teaching). All these possibilities lean on some technologies that are in their final development phase and will be introduced in next years (eLearning emerging international standards, the semantic Web, KMS, electronic micro payments, ambient intelligence, next generation mobile devices, etc.).
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