California Virtual Campus Dusts Off the Online Catalog of a Predecessor

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

They could have called it California Virtual University 2.0.

Leaders of California's latest statewide effort to promote online learning -- the California Virtual Campus (http://www.cvc.edu) -- have dusted off and expanded the distance-education catalog that was the core of the now-defunct California Virtual University. The earlier effort was a much-hyped but short-lived experiment in creating a central portal for the state's distance-learning