Recent advances in computer and communications technology present the U.S. Army Armor School at Fort Knox, Kentucky with opportunities to attain greater effectiveness in its resident instruction-and wider dissemination of its learning programs-through the use of advanced distributed learning. This paper describes the conception, development, implementation, evaluation, and outcomes of an operational test conducted by the Armor School in collaboration with the Iowa Army National Guard to deliver instruction to a remote site using a variety of distributed learning media: videoteletraining, Internet based asynchronous and synchronous training, computer based training, and conventional paper based products. The Iowa Project employed synchronous and asynchronous elements, successfully prototyping a model for selecting and integrating several different, low-cost distributed learning media to prepare students for resident instruction. Further, the Iowa Project validated concepts for converting existing resident instruction into multi-phased, and multi-media, integrated distributed and resident learning. Armed with experience gained from the Iowa Project, the Armor School has embarked on a multi-year project to convert their courses from purely resident instruction into integrated distributed learning instructional programs.