The most challenging aspect of creating a virtual university is the coordination of content from a variety of suppliers, each of which have a unique and different approach to organizing their knowledge (Cunha, Putnik, 2007). These varying approaches to organizing content are called taxonomies, and each content provider uses a significantly different approach to defining these. This makes it very difficult to make all content management systems necessary to create a virtual university come together into a single, unified platform. In addition to these coordination and integration challenges through the supply chain of content providers, there are also the wide variations in how learning systems price access to their content. This presents unique problem fro virtual universities, as they must intermediate between many different pricing schedules and approaches for their content providers. Due to such a wide variation in these pricing approaches, any virtual university would need to have an advanced accounting and finance system to compensate for these variations in how suppliers operate from a pricing and distribution perspective. Location Analysis for base of Operations for Virtual University

The base of operations would be in the United States, specifically in the state I live in. This would be due to the legal considerations of starting a corporation and be able to defend its patents and intellectual property while also ensuring control over the hosting placation used to support the virtual university. There are also the aspects of having a coordination point close that would make it possible to serve as a "knowledge exchange" for all the partners contributing content, which is synonymous to how a supply chain would...

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