Virtual Melton
Virtual Melton is the distance education platform of the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The platform is hosted at the Mount Scopus Campus of the University, in Jerusalem, Israel. The site runs on an updated version of the Moodle open source distance learning platform.
Virtual Melton is used for five main purposes:
- Hosting online courses in English, Hebrew, Russian and Spanish.
- Hosting interactive sites for past, present and future Conferences at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education.
- Hosting free-access videos of academic lectures given by visiting scholars and faculty at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education.
- Hosting the Meltonarts project - Learning Judaism through the Arts.
- Hosting useful technology resources for the Faculty.
Online courses on Judaism, Israel and Jewish Education
The faculty at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education, in a joint effort with the Jewish Agency, has developed a series of tutored online courses in Spanish open to the public for a fee in the framework of the Jewish Distance Studies Center (Centro de Estudios Judaicos a Distancia para Adultos). Soon they will be also available in English. The full list of courses is shown below:
- Introduction to Jewish Thought
- Educational Approaches to Ethics and Morality in the Bible
- Approaches for the Understanding of Holidays and their Teaching
- The People of Israel: from slavery to freedom
- Chosen Texts from the Major Prophets
- Second Temple Judaism: a Key to Understanding Historical Judaism.
- Jewish History in the Middle Ages
- Jewish History in the Modern Era
- Introduction to Contemporary Judaism: the Jewish People in our days
- Introduction to Israeli Society
- How to teach Jewish Education
To register in the courses and/or to read more information AbOUT them, the Melton Centre has made available a small website for the Jewish Distance Studies Center.
Courses in Spanish for senior Jewish educators
- Visions on Jewish education
- Mekorot - Using Jewish sources in education.
Course in Russian
Bereshit Rabbah - Prof. Reuven Kiperwasser.
External links
- Virtual Melton platform
- Jewish Distance Studies Center
- The Melton Centre for Jewish Education
- The Hebrew University in Jerusalem
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