Stepping into a new world
Teaching technologies bring 'nontech' changes too
Issue
Spring 1998
15 Articles
Feature Articles
Articles
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Touring the web sites
How do schools represent themselves-and what works best?
Does your school have a Web site? Have you visited it? Melinda R. Heppe gives tips on what sites need to contain to call strangers in and the types of subjects or presentations that may pass them by. Elaborate presentations are not necessarily the best. Where would your school’s site fit here? Does its presentation…
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Working at a distance
New learning technologies bring the classroom to the learner
New technologies that enable students to learn in off-campus settings—or that supplement off-campus experience—create new challenges for theological schools. Should the technologies be used, and if so, how? How can schools ensure the quality of the learning that takes place? What is the student’s perspective? In this article Jeremy Langford provides an overview of selected…
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Valuing commitment, revisiting call
Alice B. Skinner responds to Melinda R. Heppe’s article on fidelity; Richard Haley challenges John Leith on today’s students and sacrifice.
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Changing scenes: Librarian fired for ‘injurious’ action
Claims seminary always open to dialogue in the past
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary fires its librarian; Indiana judge dismisses McEnroy suit against St. Meinrad; Lilly Endowment awards the Fund for Theological Education $3 million; Ontario Bible College/Ontario Theological Seminary board renames the school Tyndale College and Seminary; Baptist Theological Seminary is given $1 million; Lilly Theological Research Grants and the fifth class of Henry…
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The meeting place
A review of <i>Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate</i>
Title: Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate Author: Steven Johnson Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
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Net navigation
A review of <i>Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age</i>
Title: Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age Author: Esther Dyson Publisher: Broadway
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Death of distance
A review of <i>The Death of Distance</i>
Title: The Death of Distance Author: Frances Cairncross Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
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Is wealth all?
A review of <i>The Hungry Spirit</i>
Title: The Hungry Spirit Author: Charles Handy Publisher: Broadway Books
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Visionaries fulfilling the divine plan, technology seen as opening the door to salvation
A review of <i>The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention</i>
Title: The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention Author: David F. Noble Publisher: Knopf
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Drucker on Drucker
A review of <i>The World According to Peter Drucker</i>
Title: The World According to Peter Drucker Author: Jack Beatty Publisher: Free Press
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