Faculty Spotlight

Leigh Williams, Ph.D.
Instructor, Statistics

"By giving students an online or blended course option, the faculty and administration recognize that learning doesn't have to occur during a 50-minute period."

Williams, an active member of IDDL's eLearning Faculty Community, discusses her online teaching experiences.

Leigh Williams

Upcoming Workshops

Master Online Instructor Certificate Summer Institute: June 26-28 2012
Date: Tuesday, June 26
Time: 8:30 am-4:00 pm

eLearning at Virginia Tech

Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning Facts At a Glance

  • IDDL offers a wide array of faculty development opportunities including two online instructor certificates
  • An active eLearning faculty community continues to grow in scope.
  • Virginia Tech Online (VTOnline) serves as the university’s gateway to all the distance learning offerings (including online and interactive video conferencing). These include graduate and undergraduate courses, credit and non-credit courses, as well as 35 graduate degree and certificate programs.
  • Online courses comprise a significant segment of the summer session offerings, with 250 online courses during the 2010 summer sessions program.  More than 1,600 online enrollments were achieved during this time.
  • 96 percent of Virginia Tech academic departments are currently engaged in delivering courses at a distance.

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.