MBA, University of Houston University Park Campus, Houston, Texas, 1985

BA,     University of Texas, main campus, Austin, Texas, 1965

Basic Educational Technology Certification:  Houston Community College, 2004

Advanced Educational Technology Certification: Houston Community College, 2005

Advanced Educational Technology Certification:  Houston Community College, 2005

Credentialed by Portfolio to teach Astronomy.

More than 25 years in education.  Taught briefly at the high school level,  chemistry and physics.  College level teaching has included computer programming languages, systems analysis and design, Microsoft office software, data communications and networking, personal computer technologies,  internet technologies, web-site administration , and new course creation.  Professor Boston has created more than a dozen new courses, mentored hundreds of faculty helping to migrate their courses to the online world, and conducted hundreds of faculty training seminars during his time with HCCS.  A short summary of his teaching experience follows:

ROCKWELL CHAIR, CO CHAIR Computer Science         (September 2007 – Present)

Houston Community College System, returned to service after one year academic leave of  absence.  Teaching responsibilities include both Comuter Science and Astronomy.

ACADEMIC LEAVE OF ABSENCE:                                   (September 2006 – Present)

Currently on one year leave of absence from HCCS, assigned to Xianning College in Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China.  Duties include the supporting synchronous online courses for Xianning College, Asynchronous online courses in the US, and also teaching Oral English to undergraduate students.

ROCKWELL CHAIR:                                                                            (Jan  85 - Present)

Holder of Rockwell Endowed Chair. This Chair was established for me upon my return to teaching. Supports faculty development, new course creation, and technical innovation across a number of areas. Special emphasis on the technologies of delivering instruction at a distance.  Carry Professor Status and additional administrative responsibility as  Administrative Chair for Southeast College.

DIRECTOR, Computer Science Division:                                              (Jun  83 - Sep  84)

Academic Chairperson for all computer related courses taught at more than two dozen campus sites. Responsibility for 1.6 million dollar budget 14 full time faculty, 37 lab assistants, and more than seven dozen adjunct faculty. Carried in addition a one course teaching load.

DEPARTMENT HEAD, Computer Science Department:                      (Sep  82 - Jun  83)

Responsibilities essentially the same as above with the exception that

Data Processing had not yet been split off to a separate division, and the teaching load was  heavier. Division status came simultaneously with a major expansion of new courses and hardware resources in June of 1983.

INSTRUCTOR, Computer Science Department:                                    (Jul 81 - Sep  82)

Faculty position teaching high level programming languages and several

categories of business software. Created new data base, systems development, and microcomputer courses.

TEACHER, Captain Shreve High School, Shreveport, La.                    (Aug 68 –  Mar 69) teaching seniors, Chemistry and Physics.  Left to enter the military and served as field grade officer before entering the workplace.

“Firsts” while with the Houston Community College System

• First Endowed Chair for faculty
• First named scholarship for an individual not yet deceased
• First use of audio graphics
• First satellite teleconference
• First course to be placed online
• First course to be placed on the internet
• First course to be placed on the web
• First live internet web audio-cast
• First live internet video-cast
• First face to face teleconference via telephone lines
• First face to face teleconference via IP
• First use of multipoint audio/ video via IP
• First use of guest speakers via internet for students on campus
• First to use screen capture software for creating educational content
• First web simulcasts of satellite conferences
• First web simulcasts with local cable television station
• First Construction of a 3d Interactive Virtual Learning Environment online
• First facilitated electronic town meeting

• Awards and Recognitions:

   

• Won US Army Commission as Second Lieutenant,  one of only 400 direct appointments nation-wide in 1969.
• US Army Commendation Medal, US Army Adjutant General Corps, June 1971
• Recipient and Honoree, the “Roger Boston” Scholarship, Houston Texas, Spring, 1983
• Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Fraternity for High Academic achievement in the graduate school of Business, University of Houston, December 1985
• Recipient, first Endowed Chair in the United States for Community College Faculty, Houston Texas, December, 1985
• National Institute for Staff/ Organizational Development) aware for outstanding faculty, Austin, Texas, May 1987
• Association of Community College Trustees Western US Region, national award for excellence in Community College teaching, Sante Fe, New Mexico, June 1997
• HCCS Chancellor’s medallion for outstanding Teaching, Houston, November 1998
• Instructional Telecommunications Consortium, National award for Outstanding service in Distance Education, Atlantic City, New Jersey, October 2000.
• In the Fall of 2002, Professor Boston was awarded a sabbatical break, with the opportunity to visit and guest lecture in as many as 21 Chinese schools and universities, documentation remains at this address: http://csci.hccs.edu/hist/yr02/china/
• Honored for Excellence in Educational Telecommunications, “Telelearning 2005” Conference, Richardson, Texas, April 2005

Grants:

• The Rockwell Chair has been responsible for managing more than half a million dollars which have been received in installments from the Rockwell Fund, Inc. in dozens of installments since 1983 when the “Roger Boston” scholarship account was created. 
• Additional grants managed have included:
  • 1994 $25,000 from Karl Perkins Funding (Texas), to host a conference on Teaching and Learning
  • 1995 $75,000 from Karl Perkins Funding to create an internet presence for the ten Gulf Coast Community Colleges in the South Texas Region, involved web site design and implementing.
  • 2002 $150,000 from Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF), involved purchase of hardware and software for improving faculty skills with educational technology.
  • 2007 $485,000 NSF Grant to provide remotely operated telescope at the University of Texas’ Mac Donald Observatory in far west Texas, controlled via internet from Houston and serving both educational and research purposes.
  • 2009, $100,000 Innovation Grant from HCC Chancellor to develop mobile learning applications at HCC

Service:

Awards and Recognitions:

• Won US Army Commission as Second Lieutenant,  one of only 400 direct appointments nation-wide in 1969.
• US Army Commendation Medal, US Army Adjutant General Corps, June 1971
• Recipient and Honoree, the “Roger Boston” Scholarship, Houston Texas, Spring, 1983
• Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Fraternity for High Academic achievement in the graduate school of Business, University of Houston, December 1985
• Recipient, first Endowed Chair in the United States for Community College Faculty, Houston Texas, December, 1985
• National Institute for Staff/ Organizational Development) aware for outstanding faculty, Austin, Texas, May 1987
• Association of Community College Trustees Western US Region, national award for excellence in Community College teaching, Sante Fe, New Mexico, June 1997
• HCCS Chancellor’s medallion for outstanding Teaching, Houston, November 1998
• Instructional Telecommunications Consortium, National award for Outstanding service in Distance Education, Atlantic City, New Jersey, October 2000.
• In the Fall of 2002, Professor Boston was awarded a sabbatical break, with the opportunity to visit and guest lecture in as many as 21 Chinese schools and universities, documentation remains at this address: http://csci.hccs.edu/hist/yr02/china/
• Honored for Excellence in Educational Telecommunications, “Telelearning 2005” First Endowed Chair for faculty
• First named scholarship for an individual not yet deceased
• First use of audio graphics
• First satellite teleconference
• First course to be placed online
• First course to be placed on the internet
• First course to be placed on the web
• First live internet web audio-cast
• First live internet video-cast
• First face to face teleconference via telephone lines
• First face to face teleconference via IP
• First use of multipoint audio/ video via IP
• First use of guest speakers via internet for students on campus
• First to use screen capture software for creating educational content
• First web simulcasts of satellite conferences
• First web simulcasts with local cable television station
• First Construction of a 3d Interactive Virtual Learning Environment online
• First facilitated electronic town meeting
• Telecommunications Conference, Richardson, Texas, April 2005

• Invited Conference Presentations (partial list):

   

  • June 1987, Conference of Southwest Foundations, Corpus Christie, Texas, a workshop “How to manage your assets with the Personal Computer”
  • July 1987, London England, a workshop for Mid Orient Technical, Limited,  “How to Manage Your Investments with the Personal Computer”
  • April 1988, Tulsa Oklahoma, Instructional Telecommunications Consortium Regional Conference, Keynote “Going online”
  • August 1998, Walt Disney World, Florida, Instructional Telecommunications Consortium Regional Meeting, Keynote “taking your courses Online”
  • October 1989, Colorado Springs, “Tele-learning International Conference”, Keynote “The Online Juggernaut”
  • October 1990, St Louis Missouri, Tele-Learning International Conference, Special session “Problems in Computer Mediated Instruction:
  • August, 1994, Broward Community College, Keynote Address, “Narrow Bandwidth Computer Mediated Instruction”
  • January 1996, Philadelphia, for CAADE World consortium on Distance Lerning, a Keynote, “Fulfilling the Narrow Bandwidth Dream for Long Distance Instruction”
  • October 1998, Scholarship and Community Conference, University of Houston main Campus, Keynote “The Next Generation: Impact of Technology on Learning”
  • January 1999, Atlanta Georgia, TIES (Transatlantic Internet Education System) workshop presentation, “Building Educational Collaboratives”
  • August 1999, Tampere, Finland, Digital Media in Networks Seminar, Keynote “Building partnerships Across Oceans”, Tampere University Campus
  • November, 1999, Huanggang Teacher’s College, Hubei Province, Conference on Computer Assisted Language Learning, Keynote “Applying the Methods of Distance Learning to Languge Instruction”
  • April 2000, Suzhou University, Conference on Computer Assisted Language Learning, Keynote ”Using the computer in new ways for Language Instruction”
  • January 2000, Maui, Hawaii, Conference for faculty Keynote “Effective Multimedia Content Creation”
  • October 2000, Atlantic City, New jersey, “Telelearning International Conference, Pleader, Panel Discussion, “Problems in Distance Learning Administration”+
  • July 1988, Workshop for Austin Community College, “How to put your course online
  • Arkansas State University, May 1994, two day workshop on multi-media content creation for ASU faculty
  • July 2001, Tonghua City, National Basic Foreign Language Teaching Research Center and TEFL Joint Conference on Foreign Language teaching, “Applications of computing support for Language Instruction”.
  • August 2001, HuaZhoung University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, Guest lectures, “Applying computer methods to Language Instruction”
  • August 2002, First International Conference of the IAETL and hosted by the English Language Coaching Paper, a Tele-Presentation from the United States, Keynote: “Effective Teaching via Distance Methodologies”, A Houston to Tonghua presentation
  • March 2003, North Texas Consortium, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, “A Global Perspective on Distance Education”
  • April 2003, the West Australia TAFE (Tertiary and Further Education) Conference on distributed learning, a Key note via Tele-presentation from Houston, “Perspectives in Collaborative Education”
  • April, 2004, Flexible Language Learning, West Coast College, TAFE, Perth, Australia
  • March 2004, Pan Pacific Distance Learning Association, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • October 2008, League for Innovation in CIT, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • July 2009, “e-Learning 2.0” Conference, Uxbridge, London, UK
  • October 2009 upcoming, League for Innovation in CIT, Detroit, Michigan
  • March 2010, World Conference on Mobile Learning, Porto, Portugal, published paper and invited presentation

  • Publications:

     

    • Book, Dr. Colette Mazzucelli and Mr. Roger Boston, “Education for Human Security in the Balkans – Internet Dimensions in Conflict Resolution Series”, an edited Volume by the above, December 2002,  (Volume 1)
    • Paper, Dr. Colette Mazzucelli and Mr. Roger Boston, Presented August 2001  SSGRR International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for E-Business, Science and Education on the internet, “Testing Software Tools to bridge the Balkans, Thoughts and practice to create an internet  for conflict Prevention”.
    • Article, Dr. Colette Mazzucelli and Mr. Roger Boston, “Facilitating Interactive Learning in Internet Pedagogy: A Course in Conflict Prevention”, The Technology Source, University of North Carolina, November 2001.
    • Book chapter, Roger Boston, “Effective Multimedia Instruction Across Distance at Low Bandwidths”, Digital Media in Networks 1999 Proceedings, Perspectives to Digital World, authored by Timo Valiharju (Ed.)
    • Roger Boston, November 1988, “Remote Delivery of Instruction by Personal Computers and Modems”, appearance in “The Administrator” A US Community College leadership journal
    • DRL-a-252 8 December 1965, “PROGRAM SPECT”:  Power Spectrum Analysis of a Random Process using the CDC 1604 Computer”, G.E. Ellis and R.L. Boston, Defense Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712, DRL Acoustical Report No. 252, resulting from research under the US Navy Oceanographic Office, Contract N62306-1358
    • DRL-A-276 6 March 1966, “A Feasibility Study for the Use of Monte-Carlo Techniques in Computer-aided Prediction of Seiche Activity in Harbors, by G.E. Ellis and R.L. Boston, 6 March 1966 DRL Acoustical Report No. 276 resulting from research done under the US Navy Oceanographic Office of Naval Research, Contract nonr-3579(01)