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Name: Federation Interuniversitaire de l'Enseignement a Distance (FIED)
Region: Europe - France

Description:
The FIED, the Federation Interuniversitaire de l'Enseignement a Distance, is a federation of traditional universities with distance teaching departments or centres and was created in September 1987.

The following universities are all members offering distance learning courses:
- Universite de Provence, Aix-Marseille I (Lettres et Sciences)
- Universite de Franche-Comte - Besancon
- Universite Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III
- Universite de Caen - Basse - Normandic
- Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont II
- Universite de Bourgogne - Dijon
- Universite des Sciences Sociales, Grenoble II - Pierre Mendes France
- Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier III
- Universite de Nancy II
- Universite d'Orleans
- Universite Charles de Gaulle, Lille III
- Universite de Paris I - Pantheon - Sorbonne
- Universite de Paris II - Pantheon - Assas
- Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III
- Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI
- Universite de Paris X, Nanterre
- Universite de Reims
- Universite de Haute-Bretagne, Rennes II
- Universite de Rouen
- Universite des Sciences Humaines, Strasbourg II
- Universite de Toulouse Le Mirail, Toulouse II
- Universite de Poitiers
- Universite de Perpignan
- Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin
- Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane.

Over 2,000 different courses are taught within FIED. Subject areas taught include: Teaching Art, Social Sciences (classic and modern literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, educational sciences, history, geography, languages, applied languages), Law, Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Course syllabuses are identical in all universities and materials are collated and written by teachers of students at a distance.


Address:
Mme Ch Guillard
Presidente de la FIED
Federation Interuniversitaire de l'Enseignement a Distance
Cellule des Nouvelles Technologies
200 Avenue de la Republique
F-92001 Nanterre Cedex
FRANCE
Phone: (+33 1) 40 97 75 51
Fax: (+33 1) 40 97 59 42
E-mail: fied@telesup.univ-mrs.fr
WWW: http://telesup.univ-mrs.fr

Admission:
Applicants must be holders of a secondary school certificate (baccalaureat) or an equivalent diploma.

Services:
Courses are delivered using printed correspondence texts prepared by/for institution, television (La Cinquieme), audio cassettes, video cassettes, face-to-face tutoring, telephone tutoring, counselling by telephone, computer conferencing (Minitel, Internet), kits, supervised group work and databases. A database of broadcasted courses is available on the Internet (http://audiosup.net.u-paris10.fr). Foreign students have to visit http://www.u-paris10.fr to see their obligations and possibilities

Registration:
The academic year runs from October to June. Students wishing to enrol on a programme are required to undergo both an administrative and educational registration at the University of their choice. Generally speaking, these take place in the month of September.

Languages:
French
Overseas enrolment: Yes - French nationals living abroad

Statistical summary:
The total number of students registered with FIED in 1998 was 36,000.

Date:
29 June 2000 kd

© 1999 International Centre for Distance Learning, The Open University

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