Abstract
Virginia Tech has developed an ambitious technology program called the Instructional Development Initiative (IDI) that proposes to "transform the academic lives of all students and faculty and change the nature of teaching and learning. ..." in an effort to meet some of society's challenges for accountability and productivity in higher education, and to prepare students to live and work in a global world. This paper describes two technology initiatives--Virginia Tech Online and the Scholarly Communications Project (SCP)--that are the result of self-organizing, collaborative work by information systems/library personnel and academic faculty members.