All Posts Tagged With: "rockbridge seminary"

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Free Tuition at Rockbridge Seminary!

Just got this news from Rockbridge, the online seminary: they are waiving tuition for all new students in September!! I have a lot of respect for Daryl Eldridge, the founder of Rockbridge Seminary. The traditional seminary has its strengths, but I think there is a lot about online seminary that merits serious consideration. From the [...]

August 18th, 2009 | Mark | 1 comment | Continued
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Writing Learning Objectives for Your Seminary Experience

I worked four years in a church staff position during and after college before deciding I needed to further my education by going to seminary. Those years were invaluable to my development, because I experienced ministry and discovered what I didn’t know and needed to learn before starting my studies. I wish all incoming students [...]

May 5th, 2008 | Daryl Eldridge | 1 comment | Continued
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Using Mentors in Seminary

Having a learning coach or ministry mentor is a great way to leverage your seminary experience. Our research on theological education as well as surveys with people in the field led us to make mentoring a significant part of our learning model. Many seminaries will involve mentoring during the last two semesters of their study [...]

April 28th, 2008 | Daryl Eldridge | 5 comments | Continued
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Lessons Learned about Online Learning

Five years ago, I left a residential seminary campus to start a fully online seminary from scratch, known today as Rockbridge. In my travels and discussions with ministers around the world, I discovered many ministers that wanted seminary training but didn’t feel called to leave their ministry fields in order to get it. Technology now [...]

April 21st, 2008 | Daryl Eldridge | 2 comments | Continued
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Traveling

I’ll be traveling for the next couple of weeks. I’m very excited to report that Daryl Eldridge, the President and co-founder of Rockbridge Seminary has written a few posts for Seminary Survival Guide about online education and the learning process. These are scheduled over the next couple of weeks to help cover my absence. Before [...]

April 17th, 2008 | Mark | 0 comments | Continued