A Discussion with Macy Johnson, Instructor for TEL's Introduction to Christianity Course

12/03/20 • 34 min

"A lot of passages have a progression of thought, a train of thought, that you can't just take a car out of the middle and expect it to be of any value. You've got to have the engine and every car in between in order for that thought to make sense."

In this interview, we take you into our course creation process with Macy Johnson, the instructor for our Introduction to Christianity course. Macy was also our subject matter expert who helped organize and build the course. Macy and Rob discuss the major themes of the course and why it was important to create a course centered on understanding others.

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As the Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships and Digital Learning for Evangel University, Mark Fabian has had a front-row seat to the gradual then all-at-once transition to digital learning. In this conversation with Dr. Rob Reynolds, Mark talks about how Evangel University was able to focus on their students because of the work they started 10 years ago. They also discuss how the changes of the past nine months will continue to affect education long after the virus has run its course.