{{Short description|Distance education university in Portugal}} {{Infobox university | name = Portuguese Open University | native_name = Universidade Aberta | latin_name = | image = File:Logotipo Universidade Aberta.png | motto = Em qualquer lugar do Mundo | mottoeng = In any place of the world | established = 1988 | type = Public distance education | endowment = | staff = | faculty = | president = | provost = | principal = | rector = Carla Padrel de Oliveira | chancellor = | vice_chancellor = | dean = | head_label = | head = | students = 13,170 (2010)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.estatisticas.gpeari.mctes.pt/archive/doc/insc07_08__difusao_.xls |title=Archived copy |access-date=June 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623084110/http://www.estatisticas.gpeari.mctes.pt/archive/doc/insc07_08__difusao_.xls |archive-date=June 23, 2009}}</ref> | undergrad = | postgrad = | doctoral = | city = Lisbon | state = | country = Portugal | campus = | free_label = | free = | colors = | colours = | mascot = | nickname = | affiliations = | website = {{URL|https://portal.uab.pt/}} }} '''Universidade Aberta (UAb)''' is a public distance education university in Portugal. Established in 1988, UAb offers higher education (undergraduate, master and doctorate degrees) and Lifelong Learning study programs. All programs are taught in e-learning mode since 2008, the year that UAb became a European institution of reference in the area of advanced e-learning and online learning through the recognition of its exclusive Virtual Pedagogical Model.
It was the first university in Portugal to introduce a women's studies program. The master's degree of Women's Studies – Gender, Citizenship and Development was launched in 1995 under the direction of Teresa Joaquim and expanded into a PhD program as well in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Teresa Joaquim (Professora Auxiliar) |url=https://www2.uab.pt/departamentos/DCSG/detaildocente.php?doc=52 |website=Departamento de Ciências Sociais e de Gestão |publisher=Universidade Aberta |access-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516032319/https://www2.uab.pt/departamentos/DCSG/detaildocente.php?doc=52 |archive-date=16 May 2021 |location=Lisbon, Portugal |language=Portuguese |trans-title=Auxiliary Professor Teresa Joaquim |date=2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Macedo |first1=Ana Gabriela |last2=Pereira |first2=Margarida Esteves |editor-last1=Haas |editor-first1=Renate |title=Rewriting Academia: The Development of the Anglicist Women's and Gender Studies of Continental Europe |url=https://library.oapen.org/viewer/web/viewer.html?file=/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/27256/1002757.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |date=2015 |publisher=Peter Lang International Academic Publishers |location=Bern, Switzerland |chapter=Women's and Gender Studies in Portugal: An Overview from an Anglicist Perspective |pages=27–49 |isbn=978-3-653-95443-2}}</ref>{{rp|41}}
==See also== *List of universities in Portugal *Higher education in Portugal
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==External links== *{{official website|https://portal.uab.pt/}} {{in lang|pt}}
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