Archive for Technology & Learning

New Assets for Educating Congregational Leaders

Depending on whom you ask, continuing-education for ministry is either flourishing, with assets that have never existed before, or struggling to survive.
Troubling symptoms include increasing costs amidst anecdotal reports of decreasing support for staff and programs sponsored both by seminaries and by national as well as regional denominational structures. Among mainline Protestant denominations, […]

Posted by: wfloyd on Friday, March 14th, 2008

Nothing definitive . . .

I just got home from an interesting small conference at the Blackwell Hotel and Conference Center at Ohio State, “Life Long Learning - Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age,” sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Continuing Education for Ministry” or SACEM. Keynote speaker for the conference was Dr. Mary Hess from […]

Posted by: wfloyd on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

About AlbanLearning.Org

Welcome to the new AlbanLearning site, brought to you by the Education Department of the Alban Institute.
The Alban Institute was founded in 1974 as a major resource for American congregations facing the challenges of a changing society. While today’s challenges are even more pressing than they were three decades ago, the opportunities have never been […]

Posted by: wfloyd on Thursday, February 7th, 2008