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A Few Credit-Hours Shy of An Associate Degree?
A new Federal program seeks to help students who left school with less than 9 credits to go to their Associate degree:
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Mailbag: What Did the Twelve Think of Judas Iscariot?
My helper informs me that a visitor recently came to this site looking for whether the disciples ever asked Jesus about Judas. Off the top of my head, no. (This may seem odd but
the Lord was in the middle of being apprehended and tried. The Passion stories move on with such a rush that Christ and the disciples do not speak again until ...
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Embanet U?
How much of your online degree is really from that trusted school with the recognized name?
http://chronicle.com/article/Outsourced-Ed-Colleges-Hire/66309/
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"You're creating a whole set of temptations to make the choices that will increase profits rather than improve education," Mr. Bok says
....Investors, ... [Mr. Urdan] says, are "looking to try to extract value from the ...
New Learning?
From Inside Higher Education:
This is mirrored in a split between professors and students, who approach knowledge in very different ways. Traditional faculty might be described as hunters who search for and generate knowledge to answer questions. Digital natives by contrast are gatherers, who wade through a sea of data available to them online to find the answers to their questions. Faculty are rooted in the disciplines and depth of knowledge, while students think in increasingly interdisciplinary ... << MORE >>
This is mirrored in a split between professors and students, who approach knowledge in very different ways. Traditional faculty might be described as hunters who search for and generate knowledge to answer questions. Digital natives by contrast are gatherers, who wade through a sea of data available to them online to find the answers to their questions. Faculty are rooted in the disciplines and depth of knowledge, while students think in increasingly interdisciplinary ... << MORE >>
Online Evangelical Schools Growing
From Inside Higher Education:
Weaving a Christian perspective into the fabric of course design is not unique to Regent, nor is it limited to religious studies courses. While some students attend faith-based institutions to study religious philosophy, many are studying the same subjects as their peers at nonreligious institutions (degrees in business, marketing, and health care are among the most popular at a number of Christian institutions, as elsewhere). But the point of a Christian college education ... << MORE >>
Weaving a Christian perspective into the fabric of course design is not unique to Regent, nor is it limited to religious studies courses. While some students attend faith-based institutions to study religious philosophy, many are studying the same subjects as their peers at nonreligious institutions (degrees in business, marketing, and health care are among the most popular at a number of Christian institutions, as elsewhere). But the point of a Christian college education ... << MORE >>
Mailbag: Bast In the Bible?
My helper tells me someone came to this weblog looking for information on Bast (or Bastet) and the Gospel of ...
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The Jesus Secret
I recently saw an ad for The Jesus Secret. It took me to a website called The Unhidden Bible.
This is a clever variation on the old false claim that the 'proper' translation of Aramaic reveals whatever the author wants to
push about the Bible. This time the false claim is that the original translators of the English Bible (I am waiting for the website to name names, this ...
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Book Review: Caves of Steel
I recently re-read Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel (which, for no good reason, I had mixed up with Pebble in the Sky.) I had
completely forgotten that this carefully crafted mystery involved a slice of (still largely accurate) Biblical scholarship about the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible figure of Jezebel. (Among
Asimov's many books were his general introductions to a surprsing range of topics, including Biblical Scholarship.) This is not some Metropolis-like symbolic figure, but ...
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