The article presents a review of educational trends worldwide, analyzing the mega-university in the context of globalization, through its definition and general revision of various educational experiences in institutions classified as mega-universities. It starts from the concept of mega-university as an institution where distance education is obviously the most important and which have invested in high quality technological resources and cost permitting the use of technology for educational purposes. In its work-out, a group investigates variety of articles on the net and universities information on the web, building a comprehensive information on the dynamics of the university. We find that there are common variables between them and correlated with their growth as a mega-university, such as your state origin to achieve goals of inclusion and coverage, the vital and necessary use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and methodology for distance education.
keywords:
mega-university, quality, open education, distance education, methodology, mediations.