Enabling technologies have led to the transformation from Traditional Education systems to a new methodology of virtual education incorporating: Electronic collections, Virtual reference services, Virtual libraries and online education. During the last decade, many universities serving academic communities have witnessed the emergence of new service paradigms in areas of information access and delivery, reference, instruction, technology facility and support to patrons. The new methodology is characterized by electronic communication, synchronous and asynchronous, web-based information sources, and multimedia information and is uncontrolled largely as a result of internet facilitating information creation, distribution and access. Documents with hyperlinks to other related documents/information in various Web formats are now typical, and they emphasize the fact that any information accessed by a user is a minute segment of a larger body of information on the Web .This paper explores some of these emerging service paradigms in online education their ground reality, Challenges, use of access controls, Scope and Future of Virtual university and online education.