Networked curricula in open and distance education in Europe : the importance of legal and quality assurance aspects

The aim of this paper is to present the importance of legal and quality assurance aspects when setting open and distance learning (ODE) networked curricula in higher education, highlighting the main steps to take and decisions to make about those aspects. This work is being developed within an Erasmus project Networked Curricula (NETCU) where guidelines are being developed to set an open and distance networked curricula.