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 […]
Posts by: BU Office of Distance Education
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 […]
BU Online Wows Audience and Accepts Award at 2011 USDLA Conference
May 10, 2011 at 10:10 am
We don’t have time to attend many conferences, so when we do it’s a pretty big deal. From May 1-4, 2011, our own Jim Frey and Charles Southworth attended the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) national conference in St. Louis, along with Judith Simpson, BU professor and lead faculty member of CFA’s online Master’s […]
BU Online students offer perspectives from post-earthquake Japan
March 24, 2011 at 1:52 pm
David Myers stood before his Tokyo classroom, and initially ignored the rumble underneath his feet. He kept writing on the board, assuming it was merely the next tremor to shake a nation where minor earthquakes are frequent, and figuring it would soon pass. When it didn’t, and the shaking lingered longer than usual, the teacher […]
CIS Student Seeks Thrill of the Chase
January 19, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Like many of those enrolled in Boston University’s Distance Education programs, Rob Riskin fits his studies into his free time. He loads his lectures on to his iPad, digs into his reading, and begins to tackle his homework. It’s a typical studying scene. Although the setting is anything but. This past May, Riskin packed up […]
Getting to know … Sam Hammer
December 16, 2010 at 4:41 pm
In the first of an occasional question-and-answer series exploring the people and personalities that comprise the BU Online community, we introduce Dr. Sam Hammer.
The Academic Coordinator of the Undergraduate Degree Completion Program, Sam has been teaching classes since the program was hatched in 2004, winning an award from the United States Distance Learning Association for the “Food Stuff” course that was subsequently adopted as a template for future courses, and assuming his Coordinator in 2007.
Born in Chicago, Sam earned two master’s degrees and worked in the former Soviet Union before coming to Boston in 1998 so he could begin work on a doctoral degree from Harvard University. Upon completion he started teaching at BU in 1993, and his fieldwork – sponsored in part by the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation – has taken him to spots of unbelievable beauty and natural interest as far afield as the Pacific Northwest, the Florida Panhandle, Australia, New Zealand, and the French Pacific colony of New Caledonia.
Click through for more on this father of three, who now lives in Cambridge with his wife, his youngest daughter, and an avocado tree.
BU Online takes home the hardware at Sloan-C international convention
November 9, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Before a crowd of innovators and representatives from the world’s premier online learning programs, the Sloan Consortium last week recognized Boston University’s Office of Distance Education as the best of the best, presenting the award for Excellence in Institution-Wide Online Education to the BU delegation during its international conference last week in Orlando, Fla. “We […]
National Distance Learning Week: Nov. 8-12
November 5, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Joining colleges and universities from coast to coast, along with more than 3.5 million students worldwide, Boston University’s Office of Distance Education will celebrate education’s new frontier as part of National Distance Learning Week from Nov. 8th-12th — and we invite you to participate in the excitement. Highlighted by giveaways, an on-campus open house, and […]
National Distance Learning Week: Future Challenges of Online Higher Ed
November 10, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Today, we have posted an article written by Nancy Coleman, Director of BU’s Office of Distance Education entitled Brave New World: The Challenges of Online Higher Education 2014, presented at the Distance Learning and Teaching Conference, Madison, WI, August 2009. Click Future Challenges to open the article as a pdf in a separate window. Tell […]
National Distance Learning Week: The BU Online Student Experience
November 10, 2009 at 10:52 am
Place holder for ndlw_09_student_03 Watch this video of students sharing their perspective on the BU online experience. Scroll down the page to see more!
