Visibility of European higher education area initiatives in Spanish universities home websites

Higher education in Europe is undergoing a profound transformation and also holds significant implications for the information exchange between the different educative systems. Internet represents a powerful tool of communication and dissemination of ideas, plans and multiple actions enabling to share planning and initiatives, providing efficient access to a connectivity environment. In this paper we report on the results of an exploratory analysis of visibility about the European Higher Education Area topics in Spanish universities websites. We intend to answer basic questions that arise in a natural way: is actually information of the European Higher Education Area available in the majority of Spanish universities websites, and in what extent? The goal of this analysis is twofold. Firstly, we explore different features related to the European. Higher Education Area content (quality and quantity, general web page characteristics, actualization, etc.). Secondly, we comment how easily this content is may be reached. For this study it has considered a sample of N=56 Spanish universities, most of them public. but some private universities have also been studied.