Comments on: Teaching resources and the law of diminishing returns http://www.johnhiltoniii.org/teaching-resources-and-the-law-of-diminishing-returns/ Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:29:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Christopher Phillips http://www.johnhiltoniii.org/teaching-resources-and-the-law-of-diminishing-returns/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Christopher Phillips Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:50:16 +0000 http://www.johnhiltoniii.org/?p=98#comment-59 Great questions John ;) I don't think it is an issue of too much curriculum so much as it is of too much "most important" curriculum. I never find too much information when I search for something in Google as long as the result I want is in the top 10 results. While some teachers have the desire, time and expertise to sort through a large number of resources to identify those that are the best, many others are looking for a precompiled list of best resources that they could teach from. I think the biggest challenge of a New Testament Curriki would be categorizing, rating and validating the Curriki content so that it could be filtered, ranked and made available where relevant and appropriate. While the list above list may represent "official" curriculum, the teacher already has access to additional (unofficial) curricula through any number of sources. Those additional resources will be created and found regardless of whether an institutional repository is established. That brings up some other interesting questions for that organization: *What level of involvement would the organization like to have in the creation of those resources? *Are the needs of the organization unique enough to pre-empt participation in an open New Testament Curriki? Great thought- looking forward to more! Great questions John ;) I don’t think it is an issue of too much curriculum so much as it is of too much “most important” curriculum. I never find too much information when I search for something in Google as long as the result I want is in the top 10 results.

While some teachers have the desire, time and expertise to sort through a large number of resources to identify those that are the best, many others are looking for a precompiled list of best resources that they could teach from.

I think the biggest challenge of a New Testament Curriki would be categorizing, rating and validating the Curriki content so that it could be filtered, ranked and made available where relevant and appropriate.

While the list above list may represent “official” curriculum, the teacher already has access to additional (unofficial) curricula through any number of sources. Those additional resources will be created and found regardless of whether an institutional repository is established. That brings up some other interesting questions for that organization:
*What level of involvement would the organization like to have in the creation of those resources?
*Are the needs of the organization unique enough to pre-empt participation in an open New Testament Curriki?

Great thought- looking forward to more!

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