The courses provide traditional professional education via compressed digital video broadcasts and Web-based systems. NTU continues to control academic content, admissions, and accreditation, while NTUC handles marketing, sales, and delivery services. It will offer workers training in business or home settings in information technologies, multimedia, and basic skills. A separate University for Industry will be created for Scotland. Initially administered out of the Office of the Governor, the California Virtual University became a cooperative with its own administrative structure.
Trustees plan to continue the active Web site and other services yet to be identified.
The California State University system has recently entered a partnership with Great Britain's Open University to provide curricula and online expertise to accelerate online teacher education for the many uncertified teachers working in the state. Florida organized its initial distance education efforts under the Florida Public Postsecondary Distance Learning Institute. The University of Texas System recently established the UT TeleCampus through UOL Publishing, an external network provider in Virginia. It will build on the extensive video networks already operating. It offers distance-education courses and programs via interactive television and the Internet.