Counteracting Global Ignorance with Synchronous Online Learning
Bringing web-based technology into the world religions classroom is often destructive. It’s wrong because the web technologies easily foster the worst kinds of tendencies that erode what is good about...
View ArticleClassrooms have Four Walls and Two Portals. Use Them!
I remember first being invited into my college’s boardroom for a meeting. I experienced several sentiments. “Wow! This is like being asked to the principal’s office, but in a good way!” And, “Yes! This...
View ArticleQuite Possibly the Best Resource in Your LMS: Forums
Class forums are butter of how I teach “introductions to world religions”-type courses. Forums help me keep my students as far as possible away from approaching “world religions” as a mind-numbing...
View ArticleBefore I Take My Classes Online (3 of 3): “So, I’ll Be Able to See All Their...
In this three-part series, drawn from Chapter Four of Understanding Bible by Design (Fortress, 2014), I address three questions commonly asked by face-to-face instructors who are considering–or who...
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