In July (2007), the Interactive Television Institute begAn offering an on-going, comprehensive introductory online course on Interactive Television.  This is the real thing. If you want to know a lot more about Interactive Television, take this course. It will be graded by an instructor and upon passing, students will be offered an optional free online certificate of achievement. The class is written for those with little or no Interactive TV experience. It can be considered a "101" level course and has over 600 questions, all of which are either multiple choice or true/false. (A webpage that each answer can be found on is provided for each question.) Topics covered include: The History of Enhanced and Interactive Television, Enhanced TV, Interactive Television, Electronic Program Guides (Interactive Program Guides), Walled Gardens, Personal TV (Digital Video Recorders, a.k.a. DVRs), Video on Demand, Media Centers, Media Extenders, Portable Digital Devices, Advertising using Interactive Television, Targeted Advertising, Set–top Boxes, Web TV, IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), Internet TV and a brief look at the future of Interactive TV.

You can start this self-guided course at anytime and return to it (within 3 months) at your leisure. Please email for more information. Cost if taken through this institute (versus a university that is offering this same class through this institute,) will be $200 per person. (The price could increase. Reserve your place now without spending any money. Just write to be put on the class list.)

Please note that the course material is actually more up-to-date than a number of the 10,000+ Webpages on the main Interactive Television Dictionary & Business Index site.


Currently available is an introductory self-administered Interactive Television online mini-course. As a bonus it also comes with hundreds of dollars worth of free web tools. This mini-course can be a good way to understand many of the more significant aspects of Interactive TV. You can start this course at anytime and return to it at your leisure. This course is in the form of self-guiding and self-correcting quizzes. You are shown where to find the answers and then need to answer dozens of self-correcting multiple choice questions. Cost is $20.

The Interactive Television Institute was created in conjunction with the Interactive Television Dictionary & Business Index. The Interactive Television Institute offers online introductory classes so students can better understand what Interactive Television and Internet Television is.