RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
I realize this horse is repeatedly resurrected. I am not debating the "rightness" or wrongness of either distance ed or brick and mortar. But since you are getting the same quality lectures online for free, psychologically speaking, would future students be tempted to bypass the tens of thousands of dollars where they can now get the same lectures online for free? Secondly, these types of students are theology wonks and read dozens of books.
Now, I realize they don't have a theological library and are unable to read __________ (insert some dutch guy with a difficult to pronounce last name) in the original. But still, they are getting something.
This also lets them be trained by a pastor in a pastoral setting.
Now, I am not making a normative argument. You can see other threads for that, I guess. I am asking a psyschologically-oriented economics question that future leaders of seminaries will have to answer.
Now, I realize they don't have a theological library and are unable to read __________ (insert some dutch guy with a difficult to pronounce last name) in the original. But still, they are getting something.
This also lets them be trained by a pastor in a pastoral setting.
Now, I am not making a normative argument. You can see other threads for that, I guess. I am asking a psyschologically-oriented economics question that future leaders of seminaries will have to answer.