National Project Unit for Distance Learning, Faculty of Economics from Ljubljana

The Faculty of Economics began distance learning study programmes in 1995 at the business college; they now have several thousand students studying in this way. Distance learning has been shown to be very suitable and has caught on in Slovenia. During the preparatory phase they followed the examples of Open Universities around
the world (United Kingdom and the Netherlands), but in the words of Dr Lea Bregar, who initiated and for a long time ran the project, distance learning operates in a considerably different environment and under different educational systems. This meant that fundamental adaptations were required deriving from experience of part-time study. They prepared special learning materials, introduced innovations into the education system - tutors - and conducted a range of promotional activities.