http://sloanconsortium.org/members_list the members of the sloan consortium list universities and colleges with very active online degree programs. Most of these programs emphasize collaborative learning methodology. SUNY has like 50 campus and they have all been encouraged to develop online courses and a student is free to choose a course online at any of the 50 campuses. Hence different departments like philosophy are very strong on one campus and students can find a much wider range of courses in that topic then at the particular campus they are on. In a sense SUNY allows open competition among its campus Some other big online programs are at penn state and the university of illionis where you might find a school of education involved. However, schools of education have not as a rule moved as fast as others into this field -- Distinguished Professor Emeritus Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff