Best Practices for Administering Online Programs

Daniel Hillman is Associate Director of Instructional Design in the Office of Distance Education at Metropolitan College of Boston University, USA.Robert Schudy is Associate Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Metropolitan College of Boston University, USA.Anatoly Temkin is Chair of the Computer Science Department at Metropolitan College of Boston University, USA.

• 1 - Getting started online; 2 - Faculty considerations for building an online program; 3 - Issues that online courses must address; 4 - Program definition and development; 5 - Program administration; 6 – Fundamentals of course design and development; 7 – Advanced course design; 8 - When a course is underway; 9 - Addressing unexpected developments; 10 - Administering course revisions