By Kevin G. Smith

Biblical Ethics

How This Course Works

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Welcome

Welcome to this course on biblical ethics. The course is an attempt to under-stand what the Bible says is right and wrong with respect to various every-day issues.

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Self-Study

This course is designed for self-study on the MySats site. All the study materials are provided on the course page. You can access the required readings and view the presentations on MySats. You can also take the review quizzes and submit your responses to the questions for reflection MySats. After you submit your answers, you can compare them with others’ responses. In addition, there are regular opinion polls just for interest sake.

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No Teacher

There is no teacher available for interaction on the course. The study materials and learning activities are self-contained, and can be completed successfully without any need to interact with a teacher.

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Self-directed learning

The course site will walk you through a series of learning activities that you must complete yourself. When you have successfully completed all the learning activities, you have completed the course.

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Dialogue

We change and grow when we discuss God’s word. The learning activities require you to discuss the study materials with a mature disciple of Jesus Christ, and summarise key points from your discussions.

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Lesson by Lesson

The course is designed in a topical format. You need to complete one lesson before you can move to the next lesson. You can work at your own pace, though we recommend you try to complete a lesson each week.

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Talk to your friend

Each lesson has a “talk to your friend” activity. We learn best and grow most when we discuss key truths and the implications with fellow disciples of Jesus Christ; you learn together.

The “talk to your friend” activity gives you a topic to discuss with a fellow believer. After you do so, you need to write a short report explaining what you learned in the process.

These discussion activities are crucial elements of the course. You grow most in your knowledge of God when you discuss, share, and apply the truths you are learning.

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Student Discussions

You can interact with other students taking the course via the general forum. The general forum is a place where you can post questions or comments, and respond to others’ posts.

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Textbook

The textbook is provided as part of the course. It is a free e-book, which you have to download in PDF format when you begin the course.

Every lesson in the course prescribes readings from the textbook. In addition, the quizzes to test your understanding are based on the information in the textbook and in the presentations.

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Test your understanding

Every lesson contains a short review quiz with 10-15 questions. The quiz covers all the materials for the lesson.

To complete the course, you must get 80 per cent for each quiz.

About the quizzes

• multiple-choice questions

• true-false questions

• 3 attempts

• last attempt counts

• pass mark: 80 per cent

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Opinion Polls

Each lesson has at least one opinion poll, identified by an icon in the form of a question mark.

These are just polls to see what our students believe. You have to give your opinion, but nobody will see your individual opinion.

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Activity completion

To the right of many activities, you will see a checkbox. Initially it will look something like the top example, which means the activity is incomplete. (It looks different on different browsers.) When the activity is complete, the checkbox changes appearance. The course is complete when all the boxes are checked.

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Course completion status

At the bottom left, you will see a block called “Course completion status.” It tells you how many activities must be completed, and how many you have already completed.

If you click on the More details link at the bottom, it will give you a more detailed breakdown of your progress.

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Course completion status

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Linear learning

The course is programmed for linear learning. You must complete certain learning activities before you can access others.

There are two ways that access and progress are controlled and facilitated: “completion” and “achievement” (see below for examples).

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Progression

CompletionYou will see a caption that says something like, “Not available until the activity Talk to your friend 1 is marked complete.” This means that when the checkbox beside that activity is ticked, you can access the restricted activity.

AchievementYou will see a caption that says something like, “Not available until you achieve a required score in Test your under-standing 1.” This means that when you score a passing grade for that activity, you can access the restricted activity.

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THE END

We pray that you will be informed and transformed as you study the teachings of the word of God.