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In recent years, those of us who have dedicated ourselves to distance education have seen how, with technology at the service of educational objectives, learning conditions, and results as well, improve in many cases. Technological means, integrated into a particular platform, make possible interaction and adaptation to individual learning rhythms, at the same time as allowing the generating, in a manner that is almost real, of those adapted situations on the basis of which the student may act. Furthermore, the technologies of communication and information facilitate immediate access to databases, reference materials and various resources, even while adapting themselves to the interests of those who learn.
Many universities have begun to understand the advantages of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and higher distance learning centres are beginning to take advantage of them.
This tendency is quickly becoming general, and the effort to develop the concept of the virtual learning environment - in particular on the basis of the possibilities which Web environments offer to the establishment of teaching-learning relations - has represented a quantum leap in this regard.
As a consequence of the growing interest which, in very different areas, these systems of distance and telematic education are arousing, three European universities, three research institutes likewise in Europe, the Europace 2000 body, and EUA - European University Association have initiated a joint undertaking in order to present the Benvic project within the SOCRATES programme of the European Commission.
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