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.
The annual report illustrates how the efforts of the Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning over the past year helped to "strengthen the university's role as a recognized leader in distance and distributed teaching and learning, research and scholarship, and outreach."
Read Virginia Tech's policy on distance education: