Global and Interreligious Education through Peer-to-Peer and Online Learning in Australian and USA Schools

Presenters:
Rev. Ed Hubbard, Clergy member of the Correllian Nativist tradition and public religious educator
Richard Prideaux, Teacher, and students, Beaconhills College, Berwick, Melbourne

With the advent of the internet and the other new technologies, new forms of teaching and learning have become possible in providing access to education and deepening human knowledge. One aspect is through peer-to-peer learning which involves the sharing of knowledge, and in online schools, this becomes possible beyond the confines of the school. This interactive workshop will provide internet and software solutions to educational needs, and participants will receive a free Software package. The session will conclude with an example of online learning from Year 8 students from Beaconhills College in Melbourne who have taken an online course in world religions, looking especially at Aboriginal religions, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism.