Bethlehem Bible College Launches The First Phase of the New E-Learning Program

Last week, current BBC faculty members and potential e-learning faculty participated in a two day seminar that trained the faculty to incorporate e-learning technologies in their courses and gave them an introduction on the different didactical approaches used in e-learning.

Anton Deik, Director of e-leaning at BBC, explained that ‘the training comes as a first step towards building the capacity of BBC’s current and potential faculty in order for the college to be able to provide distance learning programs’. As a first part of the seminar, Anton introduced the e-learning project at BBC, clearly presenting the longer-term vision of the project in addition to the goals and workpackages of the pilot stage of the project. The training itself was lead by e-learning and e-didactic experts from NET Foundation; a Christian Foundation based in the Netherlands that supports a network of around 40 Bible Colleges world-wide in developing e-learning programs for theological education.

After the training, the college is bringing together an e-learning core-team that will work on developing 6 pilot e-learning courses to be taught to students in Bethlehem and Gaza. During this piloting and prototyping phase, the e-learning core-team will develop their own methods and strategies for online education that will be used in the next-phase of the project. The college will also put together a strategic plan for implementing distance e-learning at a wider scale.

BBC’s E-Learning Trainees: Left to right (back row); Pierre Tannous, Fadi Alzoughbi, Anton Deik, Daniel Bannoura, Nidal Atrash, Ashraf Qazaha, Patricia Crockford, Grace Alzoughbi, Hala Ghnaiem, Sihan Khoury, Raymond Warnaar, (front row) Sara Diek, Monique van der Werf , Shireen Hilal, Munther Isaac, Ghadeer Khoury.