eLearning: covering lifelong learning in the European Space for higher education. Editorial

El Plan de Bolonia aspira a establecer un Area Europea de Educación Superior para 2010. Los objetivos generales son la introducción de los niveles de diplomatura y licenciatura en todos los paises, con titulacion inferior mínima de tres años; un Sistema Europeo de Transferencia de Créditos; y finalmente la eliminación de obstáculos para la movilidad de los estudiantes y profesores.The Bologna Process (European Ministers of Education, 1999) aims to establish a European Area of Higher Education by 2010. The general objectives are the introduction of undergraduate and postgraduate levels in all countries, with first degrees no shorter than 3 years; a European Credit Transfer System; and finally the elimination of remainingobstacles to the mobility of students and teachers. But in a deeper sense, this process represents a philosophical movement; it is a unification of the European university model that goes towards a more active learning model, i.e. a transformation from a Napoleonic model, centred in the teacher figure (deeply rooted in the South of Europe), to an Anglo-Saxon model, centred in the student figure (deeply rooted in the North of Europe)