L2-Online Bible College

1 - Online college is the only way to have free tuition Bible college, and thank God that technology is available through internet and computer.  

2 - Two of numerous advantages of Online College are (a) you don't have to travel to school everyday fighting against traffic jams every morning; (b) and the tuition is free or very cheap.  JBC does not require tuition.  JBC however wish its students pay their tithes to JBC without increasing their expenses. 

3 - There are many disadvantages of online colleges also.

a - Disadvantage - No daily personal contact, interaction or activity with staffs, professors and other students which is 50% of educations.  People are eager to pay high tuition for this important 50% education to attend colleges at physical locations.  Solution - We will have plenty of activities as soon as JBC's basic needs are met such as courses are developed, many auto-features are developed, etc.   

b - Disadvantage - No romance between students who have same interests, same age groups, same experiences, common backgrounds, etc.  Solution - Most of the JBC students are married already.  For the single students, we will try to match with other students through Student Dateline.  There will be a mandatory weekly meetings as soon as there are two JBC students within a travel distance.   

c - Disadvantage - No alumni after graduation, and consequently no sense of belongs and pride.  Solution - We will have the alumni meetings at physical locations.  We will have live online alumni meetings for those who have problems of traveling at the time of alumni meetings.  JBC students already have feeling of belonging to JBC strongly and very proud of being the JBC students.  

d - Disadvantage - Not much sense of reality because all they see is a computer screen and not real people, and there is no one to encourage them to do the assignment everyday or face the consequences of late assignment, etc.  And most of online students just cannot finish there courses even 10 years after they enrolled.  I saw a man who paid $5,000 and $600 every year for his master's degree.  5 years later, he read about 20 books and wrote one assignment, and he did not get 1 credit yet.   Solution - We require JBC students to turn in their assignment daily by imposing penalty of giving minus points.  (1 day late = 1 tardy)  (3 tardies = 1 absent)  (3 absents = 1 grade down)   This seems very push and uncomfortable to be an online student.  But without it, either you never finish the course or crash all your study into one day and nothing goes into your long term memory.  Once you get used to submitting everyday, it becomes easier and becomes part of your daily life with much discipline, and you will actually accomplish all things as you planned, and your actually will get degrees you deserve on time.

e - And there are many other disadvantages which are not written here.  Solution - Whatever the problems will be, JBC will try its best to solve the problems rather than sitting on them. 

4 - We try to solve all of the problems of online colleges.  Maybe we cannot fix 100% of the problems 100% degree.  Yet, we will try our best to solve the problems as we have more features programmed and have more students and more money.  And God will make many miracles for JBC to solve all problems beyond our expectations because JBC honors His Words high above all Christian books ever written.  One can say, "All Christians do that."  JBC says, "Then why do all (=99.9999%) Christians read other books 100 time more than than the Bible?"  

Jesus loves you.   from Pastor Mary    2-1-2010