\u201cThe Internet is Not a Classroom\u201d<\/a><\/p>\nIf you teach online or expect that you might, the articles are worth a look.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m currently in the third day of offering my course on the Bible at Butler University online for the first time. I will definitely be blogging about the experience once it is over, if not sooner!<\/p>\n
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The \u201cSpotlight on Teaching\u201d section of the\u00a0latest issue of Religious Studies News is focused on online education. It includes interesting articles such as: Sandie Gravett, \u201cRethinking Online Education\u201d Erica Andrus, \u201cIntroducing Religion to Cyberstudents\u201d John Strong, \u201cHybrid or Blended Teaching Formats\u201d John Baumann, \u201cThe Challenge of Online Education\u201d Annie Blazer and Brandi Denison, \u201cThe Internet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17,80],"tags":[281,552,1923,1924,1930,2735,3482,4894,5299,8398,8877,12309],"class_list":["post-14478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-academy-of-religion","category-education","category-religion","tag-aar","tag-american-academy-of-religion","tag-class","tag-classes","tag-classroom","tag-distance","tag-flipped","tag-hybrid","tag-internet","tag-online","tag-pedagogy","tag-teaching"],"yoast_head":"\n
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