ICDE is the leading global membership organization for the open and distance education community.

Membership brings access to a network of expertise in flexible learning and teaching spanning over 50 countries on every continent. ICDE helps to facilitate professional interaction through working groups, meetings and seminars and gives members the opportunity to contribute to and benefit from global collaboration projects.

As an ICDE member, you benefit from a discount on the ICDE World Conference fee. You may also apply to host an ICDE regional conference and thus attract leading figures from the world of open and distance education to your home country.

Rectors, Presidents, and Chief Executive Officers from ICDE member institutions are invited to attend the annual Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP), a closed forum for peer-to-peer discussions.

Members will receive all publications and materials issued in each period for which fees are fully paid, as well as access to the regularly updated and informative extranet site where lists of ICDE members and documentation relating to the policies and decisions of the organization are published.

Finally, membership of ICDE brings free access - and the opportunity to contribute - to the electronic journal, Open Praxis.