Editorial

Abstract

In the first article, Towards Expanding Open Learning for Special Needs, M. I. Yolles and M. Pirani discuss a number of demands existing in respect of higher education. One class of demands is related to efficient and effective provision to groups which do not normally have an easy acces to education, for example, disabled groups. Another demands relate to the European context, overcoming the problems of a heterogeneous European educational system. The use of computers in transcultural European open/ distance learning courses and the use of concepts of open learning for special needs are in the focus of this paper.