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Dr. Jim Dvorak is Vice President Academic and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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A quote worth quoting

C. S. Peirce (image from Wikipedia) I’m reading Cari Crumly’s Pedagogies for Student-Centered Learning (just started it) and the quotation that kicks off chapter 1 is from C. S. Peirce (pronounced "purse," by the way) is worth sharing: Upon thi...

Here it is!

Well, the temporary one anyway. The official one is in the mail.

Great point

"Uncertainty reflects understanding, not ignorance." Seen on weather report, but applies to many theological issues as well.— George Goldman (@goldmange) January 23, 2015

Good news!

After a 1 hr. and 10 min. presentation (!), I passed my OLC Online Teaching Certification final! I am now certified as an online teacher. My major track was online learners. My electives were: Strategies for Increasing Interaction and Enga...

Are you a certified online teacher?

I'm in the final hours of finishing up my certification in online teaching from Online Learning Consortium (formerly Sloan Consortium). To get the certification, I had to take a foundations course (10 weeks) followed by three different week-long i...

Joel B. Green, "Crafting Research in the Service of Theological Education"

Crafting Research in the Service of Theological Education https://t.co/QYJ27XWipI via @academia @charlesrix @goldmange— Dr. James D. Dvorak (@DrJimDPhD) January 9, 2015

Using Evernote in Education

In the ProfHacker section of The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Amy Cavender wrote an article about using Evernote in Education. This is one of my favorite topics, so I posted a comment there in which I linked to a blog post I wrote awhile back about how...

Truly Formative Assessment

What makes formative assessment truly formative? http://t.co/HBf61n9x9H— North Institute (@NorthInstitute) October 20, 2014

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