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Metropolitan College provides students with an affordable, flexible learning environment, supporting the academic needs of working adults looking to advance their careers or to open up new opportunities for enriching their lives. With over 800 courses to choose from in more than 30 areas of study, students can pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees, diploma and certificate programs, or simply take courses to advance their knowledge in an interest area including: actuarial science, applied social sciences, advertising, computer science, gastronomy, and liberal studies. Classes are offered at convenient locations in Boston, Tyngsboro, Brussels, at corporate and military locations, and more, as well as online. Most classes are scheduled in the evening to accommodate our students' busy life and work schedules and are taught by our full-time and part-time faculty or professionals who are experts in their fields.
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Rethinking project reliability using the ambidexterity and mindfulness perspectives
(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016-01-01)PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to bring together two seemingly disparate bodies of literature – ambidexterity (the ability both to exploit and explore) and mindfulness – to take a fresh perspective on the management ... -
Emotionally sustainable change: two frameworks to assist with transition
(2016)Earlier research (Leybourne, 2007; Robinson and Griffiths, 2005; Stensaker et al., 2002) has identified that assisting employees to cope with change can be beneficial in ensuring that change initiatives are more effective. ... -
"It's all up here": adaptation and improvisation within the modern project
(2017)This paper considers organisational improvisation, and in particular, adaptation as a specific component of improvisational work(Miner et al., 2001), and how it may assist in resolving or assisting with some of the challenges ... -
Applied business analysts approach to IT projects – Methodological framework
(2017-09-30)The design and implementation of a big data project differs from a typical business intelligence project that might be presented concurrently within the same organization. A big data initiative typically triggers a large ... -
PlinyCompute: a platform for high-performance, distributed, data-intensive tool development
(2017)This paper describes PlinyCompute, a system for development of high-performance, data-intensive, distributed computing tools and libraries. In the large, PlinyCompute presents the programmer with a very high-level, declarative ... -
Enhancing project-related behavioral competence in education
(IRNOP, Boston, 2017-06-17)The workforce has increasingly been demanding an educational model that produces students experienced in real project management (PM) practices. This includes producing technically competent students--one who can manage ... -
Communication and leadership skills in the Computer Science and Information Systems curricula: A case study comparison of US and Bulgarian programs
(2016)In this paper we present results from our curriculum research on the behavioral educational topics being in the computer science (CS) and information systems (IS) academic programs in two countries USA and Bulgaria. ... -
Data analytics based positioning of health informatics programs
(2017-06-30)The Master of Science in Computer Information Systems (CIS) with concentration in Health Informatics (HI) at Metropolitan College (MET), Boston University (BU), is a 40-credit degree program that are delivered in three ... -
Incremental UML for Agile development: embedding UML class models in source code
(IEEE / ACM / Curran Associates, 2017-05-22)Agile methods favor "working software over comprehensive documentation." The latter presumably includes Unified Modeling Language. UML is expensive to maintain, and it lacks good drill-down mechanisms, however, UML affords ...
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