Posts Tagged ‘Distance Education’

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    Foreign Missionay Needs Seminary Advice
    OK everyone, time to help someone out. I was contacted by Dan and Chris who are missionaries in Poland. They have 2 daughters and are considering going to seminary. Below is a letter explaining their situation and they have asked for our help. So, please take a moment to read it and leave a comment for them. Thanks! Dan (my husband) talked about going to seminary...
    by W. Ryan Burns at February 26th, 2008 at 02:02 pm
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    6 Great things about online seminary distance education
    For those who have read about my experience with taking distance education seminary classes you might think that I am not a fan of them… Quite the contrary. I think they are great. In fact, here are 6 things I think are great about online and distance education programs for seminary: Time – Are you a morning learner? A night owl who like to read at 2 a.m.?...
    by W. Ryan Burns at January 15th, 2008 at 08:01 am
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    Taking Virtual Hebrew
    So, I’m five days deep into taking Hebrew 1. To make the class harder the seminary has it as a winter session class (2 weeks) and it is done online! That’s right… online Hebrew. Here is how it works: The class has a CD that essentially contains a ‘web’ based class. Meaning the CD runs off your internet browser showing the pages that have...
    by W. Ryan Burns at January 11th, 2008 at 04:01 pm
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    How I decided to quit my job to go to seminary
    Going to seminary has always been a desire of mine. Well, maybe not always… but for a long while. I’ve even tried my hand a taking seminary classes online. In the end it never panned out for me. So, when and how did everything change for me? Well, the story goes something like this: About 4 years ago my wife and I moved from the south to the not-quite-north....
    by W. Ryan Burns at December 8th, 2007 at 08:12 pm
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    Is a virtual campus for you? A seminary’s advice
    While tooling around the net looking for seminaries with online and distance education options I found a good bit of help from a post on the Asbury Theological Seminary web site. The elements you bring to online learning are vital to the learning process. Here are some questions to ask yourself as you consider the possibilities of virtual learning: How well do I manage...
    by W. Ryan Burns at November 11th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
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    Is a virtual campus for you? A seminary's advice
    While tooling around the net looking for seminaries with online and distance education options I found a good bit of help from a post on the Asbury Theological Seminary web site. The elements you bring to online learning are vital to the learning process. Here are some questions to ask yourself as you consider the possibilities of virtual learning: How well do I manage...
    by W. Ryan Burns at November 11th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
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    List of Seminaries with Online and Distance Education
    So, I figure it would be good to work on a list of seminaries offering online and distance education degrees. Now, keep in mind that almost every school that offers a distance education will require, at least, some residential classes. This list will only include programs that are accredited or are currently in the accreditation process, and allow you to complete 90%...
    by W. Ryan Burns at November 10th, 2007 at 05:11 pm
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    My virtual seminary experience
    Ok, before I was just a guy going to seminary I was just a virtual guy going to a virtual seminary. Yes, I was an online student. The journey for me began about 7 years ago when I was trying to determine if God was calling me to seminary. I’m not so much sure how much of it was God and how much was me just looking for an excuse to skip town… either way,...
    by W. Ryan Burns at November 2nd, 2007 at 07:11 pm
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    Free seminary classes online
    With the advances of technology these days it is truly amazing the education one can get just by hoping online. Which raises a question, “How important is getting the actual seminary degree?” Now, as I mentioned in my “which degree is for me” post, if you want to be a pastor in a denominational church, then the answer to this question is pretty...
    by W. Ryan Burns at October 31st, 2007 at 02:10 am
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    Distance education is getting with the times
    Distance education has come a long way. Seven years ago I decided to try and earn my degree through one seminary’s distance program. It was pretty good, but I still have stacks and stacks of tapes and giant notebooks. The quality of teaching was there… the medium was seriously lacking. That isn’t the case today. Now seminaries are using technology...
    by W. Ryan Burns at October 28th, 2007 at 06:10 am