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Prepping for Commencement: a BU Online guide for your Boston trip

April 18, 2013 at 9:00 am

Editor’s Note: Boston is a resilient and strong city that has weathered many tragic events and struggles over time. This blog entry was meant to be posted in the context of excitement and hope that accompanies graduation. And until Monday April 15th, that context was fully intact. Although this may now be a time of [...]

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Who we think will emerge from the Madness this March

March 21, 2013 at 4:58 pm

Since our Terriers weren’t invited to the Big Dance — and because there wasn’t much interest around the office in a “CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament” bracket — we basketball fans here at the Office of Distance Education have been forced to adopt some new favorite college hoops teams as the NCAA tournament gets underway.

In typical March Madness fashion the field of 68 seems to be wide open this year, and that’s reflected in the variety of predicted champions chosen in our annual for-entertainment-purposes-0nly office pool. Among 15 entries, eight different teams were forecast as the ultimate winner, meaning bragging rights figure to be up for grabs right through the Final Four.

Who do you think will win? Let us know in the comment section, or on Facebook, and check out the breakdown of how people here at ODE and in the Metropolitan College marketing department think the tourney will shake out. You may recognize some of the names…

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A decade of distance learning at BU

September 4, 2012 at 6:21 am

This September, the launch of Fall 01 classes doesn’t only signify the start of a new term, or a new academic year — it also marks the 10th anniversary of BU’s first fully online degree program and the first step taken in the university’s journey toward establishing itself as one of the  nation’s leaders in [...]

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BU Online Graduate Carol Shansky Publishes Music Appreciation Book

July 8, 2012 at 2:46 pm

Carol Shansky, who was the BU College of Fine Arts’ first online Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Education recipient, recently reached another milestone in her impressive career with the publication of her book, “Musical Tapestries: A Thematic Approach to Music Appreciation.” Published by Kendall Hunt, the book is available here, and in addition to [...]

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Commencement 2012 by the Numbers

June 7, 2012 at 4:42 pm

Boston University’s 139th commencement ceremonies featured thousands of graduates, tens of thousands of guests, wisdom from the chairman of a billion-dollar corporation, one half-Vulcan — and, of course, hundreds of degree recipients who completed their studies entirely online through BU’s Office of Distance Education. Representing colleges all across campus, and countries all across the globe, [...]

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Advice For Students, By A Student

March 14, 2012 at 3:19 pm

Midway through his latest course in Metropolitan College’s Master of Science in Computer Information Systems online program — IT Security Policies and Procedures, to be precise — Shawn McElhinney delivered to his classmates a different sort of Valentine back on February 14th. An experienced member of BU’s online community, who has now completed nine classes [...]

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Looking at A Day in the Life of an “O”nline Student

February 21, 2012 at 5:22 pm

For Paul Shihadeh every day starts with homework and ends at Cirque du Soleil! As a spouse, parent, Artistic Director at Cirque’s “O,” and online Master’s student in the College of Fine Arts’ Master of Music in Music Education, each day is full of new challenges. Paul’s work at Cirque du Soleil is unusual for [...]

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BU Online’s Top 10 of 2011

January 17, 2012 at 3:12 pm

Today we launch our first term of 2012 here at Boston University Online — beginning a  year in which we’ll celebrate our 10th anniversary, and hopefully continue to build on our reputation as one of the nation’s leaders in distance education. Before we move forward to a entirely new annum, however, we thought we’d take [...]

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Getting to know … BU Online’s Student Services Coordinators

November 1, 2011 at 4:43 pm

As we launch another new term today, we thought it might be nice to introduce some of the folks with whom students enrolled in Fall 02 courses will become quite familiar with over the next seven weeks. They are our Student Services Coordinators, a group who is dedicated to making sure our students have everything [...]

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Cain is able: Online MCJ Student Excels as Navy Air Traffic Control Airman

July 6, 2011 at 4:57 pm

Selecting him as the sailor who went most above and beyond his military duties, officers at the Naval Air Station Oceana named Brian Cain as their command’s “Blue Jacket of the Quarter” earlier this spring. A husband and father who volunteers as often as his schedule allows, it was an acknowledgment of the Air Traffic [...]

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