Here is some information about the origins of the U3A Online project, what it aims to do, who operates and who supports it.
More detail is available from the links at the bottom of the page.
U3A Online is the outcome of an initiative of a group of U3A members. It was originally funded as a project for IYOP, the 1999 UN International Year of Older Persons. 'U3A' is the acronym used in the UK, Australia and New Zealand for Universities of the Third Age. What it aims to do A centrepiece of the project is a program of special short courses, originally devised to allow older members of the community who are isolated, either geographically or through physical or social circumstances, to enjoy the interactive learning which is a distinctive and important feature of U3As. They have priority of access to courses. More recently, people with disabilities had been included in this 'isolated' category.