Many of the students at Africa Theological Seminary (ATS) have limited access to the Internet and to computers. Because of this, ATS did not consider online learning as a viable option. However, in Kenya all educational institutions are still barred from having in person classes. Hence, ATS is evaluating making a number of courses available online.
It is accepted that many students will not have access to these courses. Although for students who do have Internet access along with devices capable of supporting an online course, it makes sense to allow these students to continue their training while in person classes are barred.
The last few weeks, I have been working on evaluating the viability of ATS doing some online classes and how to potentially offer these classes in a more limited bandwidth way. As wonderful as Zoom is, it is bandwidth intensive. In Kenya, most people do not have unlimited Internet plans and pay for the Internet a few gigabytes at a time.
Pray for my colleagues and me as we work through the best way forward for online learning given the constraints of our students. Thanks for your prayers for the partial release of my book. So far the feedback has been positive.
