eLearning at Virginia Tech
In 1999, Virginia Tech created the Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning to provide leadership, coordination, management, and support of the university's distance and distributed (eLearning) activities. IDDL is one of three units within the Distance Learning and Summer Sessions organization, with the other two being University Summer Sessions and Operations and Administration.
As an academic enterprise, the Institute works collaboratively across the university community to:
- Electronically extend Virginia Tech's campus throughout the Commonwealth and beyond;
- Provide an open learning environment where teaching and learning occur anytime and anyplace;
- Share the practical applications of the university's knowledge and expertise to benefit society and support the economic vitality of Virginia;
- Increase Virginia Tech's access to the world and the world's access to Virginia Tech;
- Research eLearning environments and emerging technologies.
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Virginia Tech adheres to the Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs as endorsed by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
News and Events 
Applying a Holistic Approach to Distance Learning Programs - 12/07/2009
Distance learning is nothing new for
most universities, but many of
these programs show their “carpet
seams” – the places where disparate
parts were joined together to attempt to
graft one piece on to another. For some
institutions, distance learning is administered
by a different office than the
academic department, a leftover from
days when distance learning was seen as
a continuing education function. At
some, faculty look on distance learning
courses as simply a way to make extra
money, a legacy of policies that count
these courses as “extras” on top of the
regular load. For some, student services
are not robust, an effect of programs
that considered registration, book
buying, and the like as secondary tasks
that the students needed to complete.
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Distance Learning and Summer Sessions Longitudinal Study Affirms eLearning Student Satisfaction - 11/30/2009
BLACKSBURG, VA — The Office of Distance Learning and Summer Sessions recently concluded a five-year longitudinal data report highlighting the perceptions of eLearning at Virginia Tech through the lens of the university’s eLearning students.
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Virginia Tech, Costa Rica Institute of Technology Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Delivering Distance Education Courses - 11/18/2009
Virginia Tech and the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (Costa Rica Tech) recently entered into a memorandum of understanding, with the first official activity teaching an online course titled Business Process Management for the Manufacturing Systems Program.
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