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Welcome to Virtual University, the Internet's oldest learning community and a pioneer in Web-based education! Since 1995, more than two million learners from 128 countries have attended classes at our global village campus!

Late Spring 2008 Classes are Open!
Late Spring classes are now in session at Virtual University! If you have already enrolled, log in to your desk.

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Questions?
Find answers to frequently asked questions on how to participate in online classes at VU in our Student Handbook.

Popular Classes Offered at VU

Here are just a few of the many high-quality online courses that we offer at Virtual University:

(click any title to browse course description):

  1. HTML 1: Web Page Design for Beginners
  2. Building an Offline Home Page
  3. How to Develop Your Psychic Power
  4. How to Build or Repair a Desktop PC
  5. Write Right: Essential Grammar and Style
  6. Writing What You Know
  7. Introduction to Color Theory
  8. Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
  9. How to be Organized In Spite of Yourself!
10. Explore New Worlds with Paint Shop Pro
11. Art History of the Ancient World
12. Healing Herbs and Natural Remedies
13. Heal Your Life: Journey to Self-Discovery
14. HTML 2: Enhance Your Website
15. Practical and Easy Nutrition
16. Introduction to Programming with Perl
17. Introduction to Open Office Writer
18. Criminal Psych 3: Patterns and Motives
19. Introduction to Forensic Science
20. Memoir Writing: The Journey to Me

We're continually creating new courses to meet your interests. Courses now in development include Create Your Own Space on MySpace, Blogging for Fun and Profit, and many others!

Got Knowledge? You Can Make A Difference!
Whether you have an academic degree or a degree from the school of life, you can share your knowledge with the world – teach a class at VU or write a self-guided course. Learn more...

NEW! Put A Virtual Classroom
on Your Own Website or Blog!

Knowledge Surfer is an amazing new "widget" developed by Virtual University that lets you put a virtual classroom (just like the working demo below) on any webpage or in your blog. VU will offer an ongoing series of free classes through Knowledge Surfer and your visitors can sign up, log in, and view course materials directly from this widget without leaving your website! Play around with the demo below and then if you would like to add it to your own website, just click the "Share Widget" link on the toolbar below.

Do you have a course or other content that you would like to share with employees or others on the Web? We may be able to customize Knowledge Surfer to suit your needs. Send a brief description of the project you have in mind to our developer for consideration.


Does Online Learning Really Work? An online course has definite advantages...you can study and do homework in your spare time from the comfort of your home. You can participate in class discussion at your convenience; forums are open 24/7. But does online learning really work? Here are just a few of the hundreds of unsolicited comments we have received from our students and alumni... "Let me express again how much I enjoyed these classes and how impressed I am with your organization. I have met such great, giving people here. Thank you to VU for your patience and fine job. It was a great experience and I can't wait until the fall." Anne T.	"A word of appreciation for our writing teacher: you promised this would be a fun course and it certainly has been that. It has also been an extremely instructive one. I am hardly a novice writer; I enrolled because I was curious to see how someone as well versed in computer techniques, instructional organization, and modern writing as you demonstrably were would put it all together. I found how you did so enlightening. You taught me a lot of valuable lessons!" Kirby B. "Like everything, you get out what you put in, but with VU is that you get out a hundred times what you put in. Classes are a lot of work but there is plenty of help! I think most would agree that the best part is the friends you can meet and the encouragement they give." Shirley C.	"I wanted to personally say thank you for an awesome course. When I went into this course I knew nothing about HTML. In fact, I was sort of intimidated by it. My boyfriend designs web pages and he paid $500 for an online course elsewhere that taught far less than you all did. Not to mention yours was so much better organized and explained." Sandra S. I am writing to express my thanks for all that you and others at Virtual U have done to make this learning opportunity possible. The giving of your time, and the generous sharing of your knowledge has been a great help in getting me started using the Internet to trace my roots. It's never too late to start. I'm 73 years old! Paul N. Read more comments from our students and alumni...