Roger Boston

Roger Boston is currently with the faculty of the Houston Community College System and holds the joint titles of "Rockwell Chair" and "Consultant for for Creativity", an innovation supported by the Rockwell Foundation since 1985.

A transplant from private industry a decade and a half ago where he was involved as an information systems manager, he has built an international reputation in distance learning since helping his organization to go "online" with their credit courses in the late 1980's.

He is a member of the PBS Going the Distance Advisory Group, the State of Texas Distance Learning Master planning group, a teacher with the Virtual College of Texas, and is instrumental in the restructuring efforts now ongoing within the Houston Community College System to deliver distance courses more effectively.

He has worked with more than four dozen organizations coast to coast to help them in their efforts to implement electronic and multimedia instructional delivery systems and is a frequent presenter at gatherings of the ITC and other groups interested in Distance Learning. He is pioneering in the use of low-bandwidth collaborative tools for instruction delivery across the internet and often teaches his classes from remote areas to test the technology.

Frequently on-camera and behind the scenes for the Texas STARLINK group, hosting and moderating satellite teleconferences and internet webcasts, he is also active in the CAADE Consortium (Consortium for the Advancement of Affordable Distance Education) and assists that group in its efforts to deliver instruction worldwide via internet and via lower-bandwidth POTS connections.

Since 1997 he has been an active participant in the "Global LEARN Day" movement, working behind the scenes and on camera in numerous global events to help usher in the age of truly world wide delivery of instruction.

He was the 1995 recipient of the ACCT Western Region Faculty Award, and his former students have built up a scholarship fund in his name of more than sixty thousand dollars, going to deserving students electing a career in computers and information technology.