On-Line Low-Cost Courses of Great Value
The Teaching Company supposedly has the best college professors in the world record their best lectures. They are inexpensive. their Christendom/Bible areas are weak, though. www.Teach12.com. (Get on their mailing list and they even send sample lectures, etc.! Even audition tapes.)
www.wordmp3.com has VERY inexpensive materials, and of a theological nature. You can get a DVD or CDs of ALL the material they have for a couple hundred dollars. Wow!
Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee and all the others that put this technological miracle together. Hallelu-Jah!
Teaching Company courses I liked, of many, many dozens, include: Science Fiction (as result of trauma of Industrial Revolution, and ways to cope), Jazz (what is the next muscial form? Jazz as articulated howl). The various courses in History of Science are very good, very good. To 1700, 1700-1900, Science and Society in the 20th C. Evolution: A Theory in Controversy has much to offer as historical background. For example, by 1900 evolution was DEAD. But Mendel provided the mechanism for the changes (they thought) and Thomson, Lord Kelvin proposed a much older universe, to give them time.
But a current course, Passions (about emotions and emotional intelligence) neglects much of the Bible. He does mention that eye-for-eye was a maximum in the Torah. He made a wise point, quoting a psychologist, that those grieving act as those with mental illness. This is a key, for when we pinpoint for what they grieve, we can show the answer.
And you can multi-task with these. I lend a lot of them out, on the basis of the truth that the declarative implies the imperative. Some day borrowers will run across that declarative that will impel them to the way, the truth, and the life, Deo volente.