_Virtual Online University_ http://www.athena.edu/
_The Open University_ http://www.open.ac.uk/OU/OUGen.html
and an article/site that is on the topic of working out premises for
designing systems which are not automatically sucked into existing models
for having not thought-through premises:
_Unorganisation: Downstructuring towards Collapsible Corporations_
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4663/udcc.htm#1