 What Is OnlineDiscipleship.com?
OnlineDiscipleship.com is a new and developing resource service that offers ministry organizations editable e-learning curriculum. Relational e-learning is a mainstream educational platform in use by most all corporations and learning institutions. This is because relational e-learning is highly cost-effective and efficient. However, the church market has been slow to adopt relational e-learning as a medium to assist their discipleship efforts. This is due, in part, to the time it takes leaders to develop custom e-learning curriculum.
OnlineDiscipleship.com is committed to developing a consortium of e-learning curriculum writters who will offer their discipleship curriculum to the church market in a manner that may be customized to meet the unique theological requirements of each individual ministry.
E-Learning As A Discipleship Medium
Many boomer-generation pastors and staff tend to discount e-learning because they believe e-learning is not relational. This perception could not be more wronge. In fact, for e-learning to be effective, it must be implimented relationally.
OnlineDiscipleship.com believes that all effective ministry, at its core, is centered around authentic relationships. This is also true of e-learning. Effective e-learning is more than communication of Biblical content. It requires committed spiritual mentors to interact with and guide their students through the discipleship process. True discipleship, after all, is helping the disciple to become like their rabbi-teacher.
Relational Discipleship
OnlineDiscipleship.com develops discipleship curriculum around the assumption that your ministry will incorporate various relational elements into the learning process. Relational elements may include:
- Assigned spiritual mentors
- Blended learning...learning takes place online as well as on your ministry campus
- Virtual Classrooms...online meeting places where students and mentors interact
- Off-line ministry practicums that require the student to gain field experience
NOTE: In contrast to relational e-learning, e-books and webinars are designed to be instructional monologues with little if any relational interaction. If your ministry desires to produce an e-book or webinar, OnlineDiscipleship.com is able to custom produce these solutions for your ministry upon request. (Sample Webinar)
Editable Curriculum
Discipleship curriculum, developed by OnlineDiscipleship.com staff and contracted writers, is intentionally designed to be modified and customized according to your ministry's unique requirements. You have full permission to modify any course you have purchased simply by using Microsoft Office or Open Office. Feel free to modify or replace any included graphics, videos, audio, or PowerPoint files. Our complete courses are intended to be used "out-of-the-box", or you may use them as a starting point to save your ministry staff considerable development time.
OnlineDiscipleship.com develops curriculum according to the specifications supported by the e-learning software produced by our parent ministry, E-Church Essentials. However, while we would be honored if your ministry utilized the E-Church Essentials e-learning program, OnlineDiscipleship.com curriculum may be utilized within any e-learning software platform that restricts the re-distribution of the content beyond the control of OnlineDiscipleship.com or your specific ministry, per our licensing agreement (SEE FAQ). |
Highlights...
"The vast majority of pastors and ministry leaders, over the age of 45, are quick to discount e-learning as a viable ministry method. The most common reason for this rejection? A belief that online learning is not relational. However, they could not be more wrong."
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OnlineDiscipleship.com believes that all effective ministry, at its core, is centered around authentic relationships. This is also true of e-learning.
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Discipleship curriculum, developed by OnlineDiscipleship.com staff and contract writers, is intentionally designed to be modified and customized according to your ministry's unique requirements.
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