Instructor Praise for Revealing® World Religions
Cynthia Eller has performed a valuable service in producing Revealing® World Religions. In this digital multi-media era, students and faculty alike need material like this. I am impressed by the high academic quality of the project, the scope of information included, and the ease with which the material can be navigated.
—Robert Wuthnow
Princeton University
Revealing® World Religions has strengthened student learning in my liberal arts core course on the world religions. First-year students often take a haphazard approach to textbook assignments, which results in their uneven grasp of course content. Revealing® World Religions promotes good study habits and the mastery of key concepts: at regular intervals during each course unit, students are required to upload to the Interactive Grade Book the results of a DVD quiz on a unit section. In their course evaluations, students express strong approval for Revealing® World Religions. They report that the DVD format actually makes learning fun, and they value the opportunity to reinforce their learning with the mini-quizzes. Revealing® World Religions has enabled me to successfully “flip” the classroom: outside the classroom, the DVD helps students build a solid foundation in the world religions; inside the classroom, students and I work on building their analytical skills through discussing primary source readings and analyzing visual media.
—Martha Reineke
University of Northern Iowa & Professor of Religion, Recipient, 2012 American Academy of Religion Award for Teaching Excellence
I've used Revealing® World Religions twice, and the more I reflect on how it streamlined some of the more onerous tasks of teaching (e.g., the pressure to "cover" basic information and tediously to document that students gained some mastery of it), the more I'm convinced I won't teach World Religions (or Western Religious Traditions) without it.
—Jon Pahl
Temple University & The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Revealing® World Religions provided the students in my Hinduism-Buddhism class with the right combination of history, theology, culture & arts to provide them a basis for reading the primary sources that were the focus of the course. The students enthusiastically endorsed Revealing® World Religions as an alternative to a textbook. I appreciated being able to confirm when, where, and how long students were using the courseware. I look forward to using it again, especially with more primary sources on the courseware.
—Katharine R. Meacham, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy & Religion, Mars Hill College
Cynthia Eller has performed a valuable service in producing Revealing® World Religions. In this digital multi-media era, students and faculty alike need material like this. I am impressed by the high academic quality of the project, the scope of information included, and the ease with which the material can be navigated.
—Robert Wuthnow
Princeton University
Revealing® World Religions has strengthened student learning in my liberal arts core course on the world religions. First-year students often take a haphazard approach to textbook assignments, which results in their uneven grasp of course content. Revealing® World Religions promotes good study habits and the mastery of key concepts: at regular intervals during each course unit, students are required to upload to the Interactive Grade Book the results of a DVD quiz on a unit section. In their course evaluations, students express strong approval for Revealing® World Religions. They report that the DVD format actually makes learning fun, and they value the opportunity to reinforce their learning with the mini-quizzes. Revealing® World Religions has enabled me to successfully “flip” the classroom: outside the classroom, the DVD helps students build a solid foundation in the world religions; inside the classroom, students and I work on building their analytical skills through discussing primary source readings and analyzing visual media.
—Martha Reineke
University of Northern Iowa & Professor of Religion, Recipient, 2012 American Academy of Religion Award for Teaching Excellence
I've used Revealing® World Religions twice, and the more I reflect on how it streamlined some of the more onerous tasks of teaching (e.g., the pressure to "cover" basic information and tediously to document that students gained some mastery of it), the more I'm convinced I won't teach World Religions (or Western Religious Traditions) without it.
—Jon Pahl
Temple University & The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Revealing® World Religions provided the students in my Hinduism-Buddhism class with the right combination of history, theology, culture & arts to provide them a basis for reading the primary sources that were the focus of the course. The students enthusiastically endorsed Revealing® World Religions as an alternative to a textbook. I appreciated being able to confirm when, where, and how long students were using the courseware. I look forward to using it again, especially with more primary sources on the courseware.
—Katharine R. Meacham, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy & Religion, Mars Hill College
