We are currently in a time of significant transition in terms of educational models. This transition is no different in significance than what occurred during the move from Cathedral schools to the university and from scholasticism to Renaissance humanism.
I wonder, what are your thoughts about online education, especially since Regent is fully committed to this new educational model. My own attempts to evaluate what we do here at Regent is in terms of past attempts to renew education.
So, here is the framework in which I work:
- Does online education allow for greater links to be forged between the church and the academy that Cathedral schools had and that was placed in jeopardy through the rise of universities?
- Does online education allow for the creation of a community of learners guided by a teacher who attempts to help them assimilate a body of information?
- Does online education allow for the preservation of a connection between the moral life and the life of the mind?
- Does online education allow for a return to the sources?
