The Experience of Open University Graduates in Education and the Role of Distance Education in Adult Digital Literacies

This article focuses on the pathways and living conditions of mature adult full-time working students of the Open Portuguese University (UAb), that have a Degree in Education, who undertake their studies at a distance university. The main objective is to seek to know their future projects and the impact of this degree (held at a distance university) on the various dimensions of their lives, personal and professionally. The data presented and analyzed results from the application of a questionnaire survey, applied in 2015 and in 2017, which was built within the Observatory of Professional and Life Pathways of Graduates of the Open University. The conclusions point to a high level of student satisfaction with the completion of the eLearning degree, highlighting aspects related to the self-regulation capacity of their learning, but also aspects that call for a collaborative dimension.