E-learning is broadening education horizons all over the world. With this in mind, this first Special Issue of RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal is to focus on innovations and practices applied to teaching environments and fields of knowledge connected with Economics and Business in an online environment. It has been edited by Alison Sheridan from Australia’s University of New England; Donald E. Hanna, Professor Emeritus of Educational Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Extension, and four members of faculty from the Business Studies Department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Josep M. Batalla, Eva Rimbau, Enric Serradell and Àngels Fitó.

RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal is an e-journal edited by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona).

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