Madrid, June 2005, The Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), one of Spain's premier universities has joined the .LRN Consortium and is moving their 200,000 students to the .LRN system for course management and online communities.

UNED is Spain's "Open University" and serves approximately 200,000 students. Its mission is to provide distance education throughout Spain and has a strong international presence with study centres in Bata, Bern, Bonn, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Lisbon, London, Malabo, Mexico D.F., Miami, Paris, Rosario, Sao Paulo and Tangeirs. UNED also has a strong commitment to creating an "Ibero-American university space" in Spanish and Portugese speaking countries throughout the world.

Jesus G. Boticario, who serves in the Vice-Principal Office for Innovation and Technological Development and is an Assoc. Professor in Department of Artificial Intelligence at UNED, has also agreed to serve on the .LRN Board for a two-year term.