Courses include interactive TV design, technical production and an introduction to digital TV. Fifty-five per cent of UK homes now have digital TV, and the BBC sees this medium as key to the future of broadcasting.
"The new interactive TV courses demonstrate how important it is for us to build future capability for the needs of tomorrow," said Nigel Paine, head of BBC Training & Development.
"We are using experts from within the BBC to design and deliver this training and their leading-edge knowledge will contribute to keeping the BBC at the forefront of innovation and help build a digital Britain."
Courses are open to anyone interested in interactive TV and range between one and three days. Each course costs between £275 and £800.
Subsidies are available for some BBC courses through Skillset, the media training organisation.
• Last month the BBC launched an online editorial policy course for all journalism staff in production and content-related roles.
Journalists are taken through the stages of news production including selecting interviewees, presenting balanced news reports and dealing with controversial material.
Three thousand staff started the course during the first three weeks of the programme. A further 13,000 staff are scheduled to finish training by the end of January 2005.
"The course provides a rapid and accessible means of helping large numbers of staff at all levels develop their understanding of the
Producer's Guidelines," a BBC spokesperson told dotJournalism.
There are no plans as yet to make the course available outside the BBC.
A similar online training course covering legal issues is in development and is due to be launched in the Spring.
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