I've now taken several Internet based courses at in the MDIA program at BCIT, and I feel that there's a few recurrent themes in need of change:

• The material is often out of date
• The forums are almost dead
• We don't hear from the instructors much

I would suspect there's very little budget to update the material once, yet alone on a continuing basis. Also, I would suspect that some of the instructors are frustrated with the current layout of the program. Therefore, I have the following recommendations:

• Find a training partner, such as Lynda.com. They could provide most of the material, and the instructors could focus on assignments.
• Create a common set of forums for ALL members of the MDIA program.
• Provide an end of course feedback by students, and have a 'lessons learned' session with management and instructors. Make decisions, create action items, and set/followup with deadlines.

In order to try and become relevant with the web development industry, I feel that BCIT is going to have to make significant changes to their program. Let's hope they've started something already.