HOW YOU BENEFIT
Program Design
Rockbridge students participate in a highly interactive community of learners from all over the world, offering a truly global Kingdom perspective. We’ll help you shape a plan that suits your own personal calling. Your progress will be aided by a local mentor from your own ministry organization.
Log into your course any time of day, when it’s convenient for YOU.
Relevant, and custom-designed for the online environment. Rockbridge accredited seminary courses are kept up to date and relevant to today’s ministry context. We do not make you sit through a streaming video of a traditional seminary class in session.
Providing mentoring support and engaging you almost daily as you move along in your learning pathway for that week’s lesson. Our qualified and experienced professors act as guides to your learning experience.
Weekly learning pathways put you in charge of your own learning, a design appreciated by 21st century adult learners.
Join an active, vibrant learning community in every course that motivates, encourages, stimulates, and challenges you. You are not left on your own to do a correspondence course.
Be free to schedule your learning at a time in the day that is best for you. You are not forced to log-on to your courses at a certain time of the day.
Apply what you learn immediately. Projects and other assignments are almost always completed within the context of the your church ministry role.
Participate in your course from anywhere in the world, as long as you have access to the Internet. The virtual classroom does not require downloading software or require intense amounts of internet speed.
A global student body builds a global Kingdom perspective of what God is doing in the world. You benefit from the ministry perspectives of fellow learners from all over the world.
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Totally Online
BUT NEVER ALONE
Rockbridge Seminary’s online learning design is unique, making seminary education accessible and relevant for you.
We offer several programs for different educational needs. Click on a link below to visit a specific program, or compare all four programs.
Each distance education program is designed to help develop servant leaders for Christian ministry through learning experiences that allow you to study and practice without leaving your ministry field.
Begin Your Student Journey
Virtual Classroom
SELF-CONTAINED AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL
When learners log into the Rockbridge Seminary (RS) virtual classroom, they enter an online learning environment known as Canvas that is self-contained and fully functional – no software to download to their home computer, no special equipment, no attachments.
After registering for a course, students join others from around the world who have enrolled in the same 8-week online class. Together, they progress along a rigorous learning journey that starts with a “Course Introduction Week,” continues with six learning units (one a week), and finishes with a “Learning Assessment Week.” Students are supported by a seminary professor who provides mentoring support almost daily throughout the term. In addition, students select a local mentor who helps them process and apply what they learn to their local church ministry.
After entering the RS virtual classroom, students can read regular communication from their professor, post questions for the professor, participate in surveys, take exams, read lecture notes, access research materials in the RS Online Library, upload assignments, and interact with fellow students from around the world in either a threaded discussion format or a chat room.
The Rockbridge virtual classroom difference doesn’t end there. Consider the following additional benefits:
- Rockbridge seminary courses are new, fresh, relevant, and custom designed for the online environment. We do not make you sit through a streaming video of a traditional seminary class in session.
- Weekly learning pathways put students in charge of their own learning – a design appreciated by 21stcentury adult learners.
- A qualified and experienced professor is assigned to every class, providing mentoring support and engaging students almost daily as students move along their learning pathway for that week’s lesson.
- Students are not left on their own through a correspondence format but join an active, vibrant learning community in every course that motivates, encourages, stimulates, and challenges them.
- Students are not forced to log-on to their courses at a certain time of the day. They are free to schedule their learning at a time in the day that is best for them.
- Students apply what they learn immediately. Projects and other assignments are almost always completed within the context of the student’s church ministry role.
- Since the virtual classroom does not require downloading software to make it operate, students can participate in their course from anywhere in the world as long as they have access to the Internet.
- Students benefit from the ministry perspectives of fellow learners from all over the world. A global student body builds a global perspective of what God is doing in the world.
Rockbridge Seminary’s online learning design is unique – making seminary education accessible and relevant for you.
Rockbridge Seminary (RS) utilizes online learning environment known as Canvas. No software required.