Universidade Aberta

Portuguese Open University

Universidade Aberta
Motto	Em qualquer lugar do Mundo
Motto in English	In any place of the world
Type	Public distance education
Established	1988
Rector	Carla Padrel de Oliveira
Students	13,170 (2010)[1]
Location	Lisbon , Portugal
Website	portal.uab.pt

Universidade Aberta (UAb) is a public distance education university in Portugal. Established in 1988, UAb offers higher education (undergraduate, master and doctorate degrees) and Lifelong Learning study programs. All programs are taught in e-learning mode since 2008, the year that UAb became a European institution of reference in the area of advanced e-learning and online learning through the recognition of its exclusive Virtual Pedagogical Model.

It was the first university in Portugal to introduce a women's studies program. The master's degree of Women's Studies – Gender, Citizenship and Development was launched in 1995 under the direction of Teresa Joaquim and expanded into a PhD program as well in 2002.[2][3]: 41 

See also

• List of universities in Portugal
• Higher education in Portugal

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 23, 2009. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
2. "Teresa Joaquim (Professora Auxiliar)" [Auxiliary Professor Teresa Joaquim]. Departamento de Ciências Sociais e de Gestão (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Universidade Aberta. 2016. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
3. Macedo, Ana Gabriela; Pereira, Margarida Esteves (2015). "Women's and Gender Studies in Portugal: An Overview from an Anglicist Perspective". In Haas, Renate (ed.). Rewriting Academia: The Development of the Anglicist Women's and Gender Studies of Continental Europe (PDF). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. pp. 27–49. ISBN 978-3-653-95443-2.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)

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