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American Public University System and the Defense Acquisition University Partner to Advance Today’s Acquisition Professionals

By Wally Boston on September 2, 2015 in Military, Online Education, Uncategorized

APUS President & CEO Dr. Wallace Boston and DAU Vice President (Acting) Dr. Roy Wood

In early July, I joined Dr. Roy Wood, acting vice president of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU), for a signing ceremony to initiate one of our newest APUS partnerships at their Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, offices. The DAU mission to develop qualified acquisition professionals who deliver and sustain effective and affordable warfighting capabilities fully aligns with our own to educate those who serve, and we’re proud to work with them in this exciting new joint endeavor.

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University of Illinois and Coursera Partner to offer a MOOC-style MBA

By Wally Boston on May 6, 2015 in Uncategorized

Recent news that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is offering an MBA in partnership with Coursera is not a surprise. Coursera has worked hard to find a business model that will generate revenues for it and its partner schools, and this opportunity has the potential to create substantially more revenues than the standard MOOC proctoring and certificate fees.The coverage of the partnership by Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Education provides insights to the major terms of the partnership but leaves unanswered questions about student demand for the product, employer acceptance, and accreditation and regulatory compliance among others.

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The Summit for Online Leadership and Strategy

By Wally Boston on January 28, 2015 in Online Education, Student Persistence, Student Retention, Uncategorized

Last week, I attended the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and American Council on Education (ACE) Summit for Online Leadership and Strategy in San Antonio. Less than two years ago, I was asked to serve on the UPCEA Center for Online Leadership and Strategy Advisory Council. Part of the Center’s role was to plan the first summit that took place in San Diego last year.

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Nurturing the Entrepreneurial Spirit

By Wally Boston on December 12, 2014 in Technology, Uncategorized

By Joe Rice, Director, Eastern Panhandle Technology Innovation Center

The spirit of entrepreneurship doesn’t go away after you launch your company. In fact, many entrepreneurs consider themselves “serial entrepreneurs” as they seek the thrill and excitement of starting a new company. These serial entrepreneurs gather much more satisfaction in starting companies than they do in running them.

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AMU-Hosted Summit Draws International Leaders in Fight against Human Trafficking

By Wally Boston on November 28, 2014 in Current Events, Uncategorized

By Jeffrey Kuhn, Associate Vice-President, Public Safety and National Security Sectors, American Military University

On November 17-20, American Military University (AMU) hosted Together Let’s Stop Traffick, an international summit aimed at promoting collaboration in the ongoing global fight to end human trafficking. Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and has been referred to as the “human rights issue of our era.” Traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control a person for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex or providing labor services against his or her will.

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The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education by Charles Hugh Smith

By Wally Boston on November 20, 2014 in Uncategorized

My three greatest interests in higher education are (in order): affordability, student persistence, and technology-enabled education. Given the size of the sector, researchers or authors usually write about one of those topics in a focused or nuanced paper/book. Having read a reference to the above book that appeared to focus on affordability and technology-enabled education, I ordered a copy.

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MOOCs and 78 Banbury Road

By Wally Boston on September 25, 2014 in Online Education, Technology, Trends in Higher Education, Uncategorized

Dr. Paul Rich is President of the Policy Studies Organization, an academic partner of APUS and publisher of many academic journals. His enthusiasm for affordable learning through technology mirrors mine and I asked him if he would provide an introduction for the conference that we are attending this week at Oxford.

Every two years, American Public University System (APUS) is part of a conference held by Oxford University on aspects of the Internet.

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Tapping Innovation in Scholarship, Leadership and the Workplace

By Wally Boston on July 30, 2014 in Graduation, Online Education, Uncategorized

By Thomas Rasbach, Alumnus, American Public University

In late April, I was informed that American Public University (APU) planned to present me with one of its James P. Etter Awards for Creativity and Innovation during its recent 2014 Commencement. I had no idea that I was even nominated. I did not realize at the time the magnitude of what this would mean for me or my career, or that I was the first student to receive the prestigious award.

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A Leader’s Perspective

By Wally Boston on July 7, 2014 in Economy, k-12 education, Uncategorized

Dr. Wally Boston was invited by The Education Alliance, a non-profit that works to improve K-12 education in the state of West Virginia, to participate in: EDTalks: Connecting Education, Jobs and Our Future event.

The EDTalks event featured three speakers: the Honorable Joe Manchin, III, United States Senator, Erin Sponaugle, 2014 West Virginia Teacher of the Year, and Dr.

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The Rise of Virtual Leadership

By Wally Boston on July 2, 2014 in Uncategorized

By Melissa Layne, Director of Research Methodology and Editor-in-Chief for Internet Learning Journal

Are leaders born or made? This widely debated question has been a topic of conversation for decades. I decided to ruminate upon this question after being chosen as the recipient of the Wagner Award for Distance Education Leadership, sponsored by Pearson Learning Solutions.

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