St George’s College Jerusalem now has our online learning environment up and running.

It went ‘live’, as they say, just yesterday.

We are using the MOODLE software, and you can find the site here.

The new online learning system allows us to share materials with students before they come to a program, while they are here, and also to continue giving them access to the materials long after the program has ended.

It extends the learning and reflection cycle to several weeks, and maybe longer.

And it sustains the community formed among pilgrims during their shared time here with us.

We shall now publish the program booklet in digital form around 4 weeks before the start of a program so that everyone has a good sense of what they will be doing. Paper copies of the programs will still be available when pilgrims arrive here, but having advance access to the information in digital form means you can print it off, leave a copy with family, or load it into your iPad or iPhone.

The system also provides a rich environment for interaction between our participants, and direct with the staff.

In future it also means we can offer some pre-program learning to assist people to arrive even better prepared for their time with us.

We shall create a user account for each new pilgrim, but if you would like us to create one for you retrospectively, just drop us an email.

Once your user account is created, the system will send you a message with your username and password. If you follow the instructions in that message, you will have immediate access to the learning materials and other information on the site.

Even if you never sign into the account after your user account is created, this system will allow us to share information with you since messages from the site go direct to your personal email address.

So you can hear from us, even if you do not sign in. But it will be a much richer online community if you do sign in; whether now or after you get home.

We look forward to seeing you online!

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