Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Publication Title

Teaching Theology and Religion

First Page

13

Last Page

20

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9647.2010.00668.x

Abstract

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.

Rights

‘This is a peer reviewed version of the following article:

Hege, B. A. R. (2011), The Online Theology Classroom: Strategies for Engaging a Community of Distance Learners in a Hybrid Model of Online Education. Teaching Theology & Religion, 14: 13–20.

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which has been published in final form at: 10.1111/j.1467-9647.2010.00668.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving'.

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