UNIVERSIDAD INTERNACIONAL DE LA RIOJA SA

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UNIR

The International University of La Rioja (UNIR, http://research.unir.net, Spain) is a young online university founded on a global vision of education directly linked to companies and business. UNIR facilitates an exclusive, innovative and high quality virtual model of higher education, which leans on a personalized, pro-active, and collaborative distance learning method of instruction. UNIR is an academic institution established in compliance with the current regulations governing universities (100% open university, SME), fulfilling all parameters and regulations of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). UNIR provides international courses, in two languages (English and Spanish), and comprises an academic community of over 300 highly knowledgeable lecturers across the world, along with a strong team of more than 400 multidisciplinary professionals, working on R&D projects and support services (i.e. tutoring, legal, publishing, editing, technical, administrative, etcetera). Student number keeps increasing exponentially, surpassing this academic year the nine thousands. UNIR has premises in Spain (Logroño and Madrid), Argentina (Buenos Aires), and Santa Cruz (Bolivia), and a number of collaboration agreements with Latin American universities. Research at UNIR covers the various scientific and humanistic fields of study (i.e. Communication, Social Science, Education, et cetera), with particular emphasis on the information and communication technologies (ICT) applied to education (Technology-Enhanced Learning).

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