Public Peek Into the Virtual Classroom for
RL-02 - "Lent" Dying, Rising and Living Anew"
This page will provide you with a limited look into the Virtual Classroom for "Lent: Dying, Rising, and Living Anew" by Dr. Rick Lowery, PhD.
The "public peek" shows limited samples of some of the interactive features of the Virtual Classroom and its learning community. Although a limited subset of the available features and only a few of the available postings, all of the samples shown here are live direct from the real Virtual Classroom.
In addition to the samples shown below, the Virtual Classroom also includes:
- List of Virtual Classroom Features and Functions
- Course Syllabus
- Class Roster
- Live Audio Conference Calls (and their recordings)
- E-Newsletters
- Course Materials
- About This Class
- How To Take This Course
- Broadband Speed Test
- Facebook Postings
- Twitter Postings
- Private conversation among students and faculty/staff
- End-of-Class Survey
The purpose of this public peek is to give you a brief sample and insight into the user experience of this course.
Video-On-Demand Sample
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The course will consist of six weekly video-on-demand sessions, each featuring Dr. Lowery's lecture and a discussion of the text between Dr. Lowery and Rev. McCrae. The video-on-demand is delivered with Adaptive Streaming support from 386-kbps to 3,800-kpbs in nine steps. Adaptive Streaming sends the highest quality file that each user's broadband connection will allow.
Also included in the course will be six weekly live conference calls with Dr. Lowery for interactive discussions and Q&A.
The video you see when you click the button above is a short sample of the video used for this course.
Recent Activity in the Class Forum
The full Virtual Classroom for this course has an unlimited interactive Class Forum where students, instructors and mentors can exchange ideas and comments. Shown below are four forum threads with the most-recent activity.
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Class Notices
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Class Feature Stories
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Adaptive Streaming ImplementedAll of the videos in this couse use out new Adaptive Stream technology. If you have sufficient of bandwidth, you will automatically see the 1080-HD version. If you have less connectivity, the server will automatically throttle down to be best quality that your connection will support. The adaption process is dynamic so it will even adjust (throttling up and down as needed) to make sure you have the best possible viewing experience. In this course, we are currently supporting 8,884-kbps (1,920x1,080) on the high end and 328kbps (416x234) on the low end. |
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Introduction To the Connected CommunityThe Connected Community is devoted to member and student socialization, free workshops and news. It is the student activity center, student union and community center of all of our participants; serving students, faculty, staff, alumni, guests AND people just here to look around. We offer a variety of programs, activities, services and free educational workshops. |
Class Calendar
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For Additional Information
Click here to order the course online for sermon prep for $79.99 per student.
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Click here for the flyer PDF file.
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Click here to read the course syllabus.
Click here to read press release #1.
Click here to read about Rick Lowery.
Click here to read about Linda McCrae.
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"Lent: Dying, Rising, and Living Anew"
by Dr. Richard Lowery, Ph.D.
Additional discussion with Linda McCrae
This course explores the Hebrew Bible lections for Lent in the Revised Common Lectionary, Year C, beginning with the alternate suggested reading for Ash Wednesday (Isaiah 58) and ending with the Fifth Sunday in Lent. Though the Sixth Sunday in Lent offers a thematic choice (Palm or Passion), most churches celebrate the Palm Sunday, triumphal entry theme. The lectionary offers no Palm Sunday reading from the Hebrew Bible, so we won’t have a session about that week’s texts.
Course cost: $79.99 per participant.
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Christian College and TransformingTheChurch.org have endeavored to make this course as RELEVANT and as ACCESSIBLE to as many Pastors as possible. Our pricing is set in order to ensure that even those on a “lean” professional development or educational budget can participate. This is not only fresh, new content for Lenten preparation, but affords several hours of direct interaction with the instructor. We believe that the VALUE is unsurpassed, and we offer this course to the Church and Her Servants with hopes that you can participate.
Now available to everyone, online learning technologies have been effectively and efficiently employed in university-, high-school- and adult-education level applications in academia and corporations. Anyone can participate from their home or office; all that is needed is a web browser and a broadband Internet connection.
