Launched in 1989, the Virtual University
of the Monterrey Institute of Technology in
Mexico is a consortium of collaborating
universities, including 13 outside Mexico.
It enrolls 9,000 degree students and an
additional 35,000 nondegree participants
annually from throughout Mexico and several
Latin American countries. Courses are
delivered though a combination of printed
texts and both live and prerecorded television
broadcasts, with communication between
faculty and students facilitated by
computers