Saturday, November 22, 2008

Checking out tech options

Last week, Peter Harvin (AU's Chief Information Officer) joined me on a trip to New Orleans, where we spent a day with our friends at New Orleans Baptist Seminary, checking out their use of Compressed Interactive Video (CIV) for delivering instruction to multiple locations. NOBTS has a great system going, and they can link as many as 12 sites together to provide access to a single course.

Our little old Master of Ministry program won't need as extensive a network as that -- we're planning sites in Columbia and Charleston to be linked to the Anderson classroom. But it was really helpful to see how our colleagues are handling these issues. Thanks to Jerry Barlow and the gang at NOBTS for being so gracious in showing us how they use CIV to teach.

Keep checking back -- new announcements coming, including some major Baptist leaders who have agreed to be part of our program!