Jack Reese and James Thompson have already taken advantage of Interactive Video classes to teach courses in Irving by satellite video-teleconference. The Internet quickly became a focus as an untapped resource. Dr. Tim Sensing was asked to join a team from the Adams Center to develop a prototype course for the university. Pauline Epistles was selected to be that first course. The course was developed in the spring of 1999 with its inaugural debut this fall.
Online courses offer a full range of interactive learning opportunities.
This course provides traditional readings, lecture notes, tests, papers, and also threaded discussion questions, online PowerPoint presentations, web links, streaming video and audio. Online viewing of sample sermons allows students to see models and critique sermons using criteria they have learned in the course. Tests, emails, writing assignments and threaded discussions all take place online, creating a complete paperless interface. Sensing's preaching course is the first, but not the last. Old Testament Theology , a study of selected portions of the Old Testament to attempt to determine the major religious teachings of each portion.