One of the most frequently asked questions concerning training related web sites is "what training courses are available here?" It seems that everyone has heard the cost-saving promises of Internet/Intranet training delivery, and many are surfing for that promised training pot-of-gold they've heard about. One training site, the OTT SPIDER, provides samples of available on-line training and links to experts working in this area. The successful adaptation of training courses to the ubiquitous world of on-line delivery has been achieved in some very diverse areas. Networking and telecommunications technology have also provided alternative distribution and management of training via downloadable courses and on-line course registrations.

In this paper, a review of courses currently delivered on the Internet/Intranet are presented and evaluated to help characterize the types of training that are best suited for on-line delivery. Corporate, academic, military, and government organizations using on-line training solutions, and individual points of contact are listed. The types of courses/curriculum that have been most successful for delivery on-line are described. Estimates of cost savings and other efficiencies of on-line training, and a discussion of problems/solutions for on-line verification/certification are presented. Finally, a discussion of access to 3-D worlds via Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) and the unique advantages that 3-D desktop simulation, on-line synchronous audio, and interactive digitized video may offer for a next generation of on-line education and training, provide a glimpse into what we can expect in the next century