The Monterey Institute for Technology and Education is an educational non-profit organization committed to improving access to education. MITE (pronounced "mighty") sponsors a range of projects from establishing development standards and specifications for online courses, to educational research and multimodal content development. One of MITE's cornerstone projects are the National Repository of Online Courses.

NROC Network is a community of educators, administrators, technologists, and designers working together to develop high-quality, online content and instruction. The Network addresses the common need among educational institutions for quality online content and professional development of faculty.

Courses in the NROC library are contributed by developers from leading online-learning programs across the country. All courses are assessed to ensure they meet high standards of scholarship, instructional value, and presentational impact. NROC works with developers and contributes resources to improve course quality and to provide ongoing maintenance. NROC courses are designed to cover the breadth and depth of topics based on generally accepted national curricula and can also be customized within a course management system.

NROC partners with academic institutions, publishers, teaching organizations, state and federal agencies, international distributors and others to create a global distribution network to provide courses to students, teachers, and the general public at little or no cost.