This is the article I mentioned in my discussion post for week 6! Even though the statistical significance in many cases is small, I think it is helpful in thinking through some of the questions of HOW to participate in online discussion.

I couldn't figure out how to simply upload a document here, so I have created an open dropbox folder and put the Brookfield piece on discussion-based teaching, which I mentioned in several places in Module 3, in that. I hope you can see it!

Hangen reflects on a radical redesign of her syllabus, which also includes elements of more student-directed learning.

A bit dated, now, Hess is one of the few faculty who has treated the use of technology in theological education with sustained attention.

I thought you might be interested in Shulman's research, in that he has worked a good bit with students in programs like ours (nursing and theology), which are both professional and academic. He is wrestling, in this essay, with the categories of engagement and commitment in processes of learning.