The TLTRs were established in 1998. Each faculty's Dean was asked to create a Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable. The TLTR is a "national program, which encourages, guides, and assists individual campuses in developing their own campus-wide planning and support systems and in working on related projects with other institutions. More specifically, the TLTR program seeks to help participating colleges and universities support better selection and use of a rapidly widening range of instructional choices to serve the learning needs and preferences of a widening range of students as well as the teaching capabilities and preferences of a wide range of faculty."

The following roundtables were established after Buffalo State and SUNY colleagues attended TLTR training with Steve Gilbert of the TLT Group.