Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Online Resources


Online learning has been a trend nowadays, changing formal learning in lecture halls to user-friendly screen interface learning. There is a range of free online courses around the internet, provided by reputable institutions and academics worldwide, in areas of liberal arts, theology and biblical studies.

These quality resources can be used anytime and anywhere, no-frills and most importantly FREE. Note that these are not qualification awarding schemes. Everyone can study, but not everyone can be a Master in Theology, because academic qualification comes through rigorous hard work, study and critical thinking, noted a friend earlier last year.

These are some which I think worth mentioning. If got other ones, please suggest-lah.

1) Open Yale Courses -

"provides free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

Open Yale Courses reflects the values of a liberal arts education. Yale's philosophy of teaching and learning begins with the aim of training a broadly based, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used.

This approach goes beyond the acquisition of facts and concepts to cultivate skills and habits of rigorous, independent thought: the ability to analyze, to ask the next question, and to begin the search for an answer.

We hope these courses will be a resource for critical thinking, creative imagination, and intellectual exploration."

2) Biblical Training

"Biblical Training Biblical Training offers the finest in Christian evangelical teaching to the world, for free, forever. Training for transformation you can trust."

3) Covenant Worldwide

"Covenant Worldwide's mission is to provide ready access to grace-centered, high-quality theological training by minimizing the barriers of distance, cost, and language. This mission recognizes our part in stewarding the resources of theological education to the Church, which is growing most rapidly in areas of the world where ministry training is often least available."

1 comment:

Janicelees said...

Waw, cool. You might also want to try MIT OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm