Al-Quds Open University

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Al-Quds Open University (QOU) claims to be the first open & distance education university in the Arab World. It was established in Amman by a decree issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and started operating in Palestinian territories in 1991. QOU is the only open distance education institute in the Palestinian territories. It is considered the largest university - it has over 60,000 students studying in 24 educational regions and centers distributed all over the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Its web site is at http://www.qou.edu and the English version is at http://www.qou.edu/englishIndexPage.do

A wikipedia entry is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Quds_Open_University

Reports

There is A Comprehensive Evaluation of Al-Quds Open University and several other reports and presentations.

There is also the online presentation "The Future of E-Training Technologies at Al-Quds Open University" (SlideShare) from Mahmoud Hawamdeh, Head of Training and Development Department at ICTC.

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