The Online Theology Classroom: Strategies for Engaging a Community of Distance Learners in a Hybrid Model of Online Education

Brent A. R. Hege

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9647.2010.00668.x

The Online Theology Classroom: Strategies for Engaging a Community of Distance Learners in a Hybrid Model of Online Education

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The key to success in online education is the creation and sustenance of a safe and vibrant virtual community. In order to create such a community instructors must pay special attention to the relationship between technology and pedagogy, specifically in terms of issues such as course design, social presence, facilitation of sustained engagement with course material, specially tailored assignments, and learner expectations and objectives. Several strategies for accomplishing this goal are presented here based on the author’s experiences teaching second career students in hybrid introductory theology courses at a mainline denominational seminary.

Original language	American English
Journal	Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9647.2010.00668.x
State	Published - Jan 1 2010

Keywords

college
education
instruction
pedagogy
theology

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Education
Other Religion
Religion

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