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		<title>New Study: Online Education up 17% to 4.6 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Sloan Survey of Online Learning reveals that enrollment rose by nearly 17 percent from a year earlier.  The survey of more than 2,500 colleges and universities in the United States finds approximately 4.6 million students were enrolled in at least one online course in fall 2008, the most recent term for which figures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World of the Bible Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Society of Biblical Literature (of which I am a member) has just initiated a survey that will be used as part of the preparation for a new educational web site called &#8220;The World of the Bible: Exploring people, places, and passages&#8220;.  Please take a few minutes and fill out the anonymous survey, as your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faculty Videos, YouTube, and iTunes U &#8211; Presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it has been a while, hasn&#8217;t it?  Again.  Apparently, I have had a busy fall &#8230; I gave a presentation at the 8th Hawaii International Conference on Education a couple of days ago, and it was called &#8220;Putting a Face on E-Learning: A Strategy to Integrate Faculty Videos into YouTube, iTunes U and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to World Religions now on iTunes U</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it has been a long time since my last posting.  For a number of reasons.    However, I am pleased to say that there are nine world religion video summaries that are now available on iTunes U!   They are a part of the RELS201 Introduction to World Religions course that I teach at APUS.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Christian Studies Courses at UNBC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have been following the development of the Certificate of Christian Studies at UNBC the last couple of years, you may be interested in knowing about the future.  No, not the whole &#8220;future&#8221;, just the future of Christian Studies.    The course offering will be expanding from six courses to seven, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Books!  No, really, these are free books!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick posting today.  Did you know that there are about a zillion books that are freely available/downloadable online?  Of course you knew that.  But &#8230; did you know that over 30,000 of them are nicely categorized and searchable at Project Gutenberg?  Check it out, and also look at their list of the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worldwide Classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mixed in with all of the useless stuff on the Internet, there are occasionally some great resources.  And Covenant Theological Seminary&#8217;s Worldwide Classroom is definitely one of the good ones!  They provide FREE lecture manuscripts, study guides and mp3&#8242;s for twenty courses in spirituality, Biblical studies, theology, ministry, etc.  If you are looking to deepen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to the Bible now on iTunes U!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, believe it or not, I am now on iTunes U!  Crazy.  As part of our ongoing e-learning initiatives at AMU, I have been creating and incorporating video summaries into some of my online classes.  Within the classes, the target group has been current students.  As a next step, the university is expanding its reach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Spirituality @ UNBC</title>
		<link>http://wessner.ca/?p=486</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few of you have been inquiring about the reading requirements for the Christian Spirituality course at UNBC this September.  Well it is your lucky day &#8211; the course textbooks are listed here, and the weekly readings are listed below. Week Topic(s) Reading(s) Assignment(s) 1 Seasons of the Soul Living Intentionally Any 10 of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming e-Learning Conferences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 20:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking for opportunities to learn more about online education, network with other instructors, or get some practical tips for improving your online teaching techniques?  If so, why don&#8217;t you attend a conference this year? Go to eLearning Conferences: eLearning Technology for a comprehensive list of 2009 conferences.  Happy learning (and happy travelling)! Download as [...]]]></description>
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