The teaching and learning is conducted exclusively online, with students receiving real-time classes through their computer or device via interactive video conferences which are streamed directly from campus.

The university, whose offer has been increasing since its foundation in 2008, has a strong focus on education and teacher training.

[9] Assessment is compliant with the principles of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), adapted to a virtual environment.

The credit system measures the effort a student has to make in order to acquire the competence demanded by each subject.

It has adapted and enriched Sakai's virtual campus in the creation of key distance learning tools, which include the Communications Centre (where students receive all types of notices from their professors); video conferences using Blackboard Collaborate (which allow students to attend real time lessons directly transmitted from the campus) and cutting-edge E-learning multimedia documents which combine voice, image and text.

'[11] VIU was the first Spanish university to receive such award, which includes winners from the world's premier educational institutions.