Potentially, there are some 1.5 million Portuguese adults with upper secondary qualification who could benefit from lifelong learning opportunities. In addition there is an additional approximately one million population that has higher education qualification and could potentially benefit from qualification upgrading using the DL approach. Existing supply of places barely scratches this potential. Moreover, the scope of DL is not limited to non-traditional students. With the use of new technologies in DL, the scope can reach the wider group of traditional students, who can benefit from blended or mixed-model approaches that combines distance with face to face learning.