MET Computer Science and Learning Team Authors New Tome on Best Practices in Online Education
Best Practices for Administering Online Programs, a new book to be published later this month by Routledge Press, is a collaborative effort by BU MET leadership, faculty, and staff that lays out the principles of one of the College’s major strengths: affordable, accessible, and scalable online learning.
Digital, distance-based instruction is a highly collaborative field, and Best Practices for Administering Online Programs sees MET Office of Distance Education Associate Director of Instructional Design Dr. Dan Hillman, Department Computer Science Chair Dr. Anatoly Temkin, and Computer Science Associate Professor Emeritus Dr. Robert Schudy explain how to manage effective online programs—including defining and designing courses, implementing and instructing them, and working as a team, and with students, to keep efforts updated.
Dr. Hillman, Dr, Temkin, and Dr. Schudy attest that in many ways, their book was a group effort between MET program directors, supervisors, department chairs, participating faculty, instructional designers, IT specialists, and support staff. Readers, they say, can expect the book to provide guidelines for fostering quality, faculty skills, academic integrity, learning objectives, course improvement, and more.
Dr. Temkin and Dr. Hillman were previously awarded the 2014 Blackboard Catalyst Award for Exemplary Course Program for their work designing Quantitative Methods for Information Systems (MET CS 534), part of MET’s online Computer Information Systems master’s degree program.