L’università a distanza: dalla Open University alla Legge Moratti-Stanca

[Autom. eng. transl.] The history of remote universities in the world is characterized by the attention paid by some states to people who find themselves in difficulty in attend a traditional university. This attention is reflected in various actions aimed at providing qualified education and third-level qualifications to an increasing number of students without qualifications. The first part of the article reports the development of some of the main distance universities at European and world level, analyzing the development policies and the most important phases. In the second part, the affirmation of telematic universities in Italy is reconstructed, recalling how the traditional university system since national unity Italian is characterized by a marked role of the state. The Italian landscape is analyzed before and after the Moratti-Stanca law (2003), a decisive moment in the establishment of telematic universities. Finally, the Italian framework in the field of distance and e-Learning is described as evolving following the Covid-19 pandemic.