What colleges and seminaries do you know of that have their curriculum 100% on Logos? This does not have to include student portal, testing, etc., just curriculum.I only know of one:Berean School of the Bible
Redemption Seminary may be one. I had started reading from An Introduction to Biblical Greek, and noted from the preface that the author, Dr. John D. Schwandt, is president of Redemption Seminary. I was curious and did a cursory check, and noticed they are using Logos content. As for whether 100% of their curriculum is on Logos, though, I'm not certain.
Knox Theological Seminary has a lot of their books in Logos, but not all. I'm not sure how many. They do have some sort of arrangement with Logos, so I would expect most, but you would have to confirm that with them.
With all the students and professors on here, I am surprised only 2 replied so far.Surely there are more college and seminary programs whose curriculum all on Logos or almost all on Logos.
Sure, there might be, but only 573 people have viewed this thread so far out of all the hundreds of thousands of Logos users. So it might take time.
Also it's quite likely that most professors choose the books to use in their curricula based on what books are best, not based on whether they are available in Logos or not. There are still plenty of other ways to read books. Regent College still has a physical bookstore and it's one of the last remaining truly great theological bookstores in North America.
There are still vast numbers of good theological books, even ones from publishers Logos does business with, that Logos does not have in their catalogue. Some of these are available in Kindle, but some are not available digitally anywhere.
If Logos wants more seminaries to provide Logos-only based curricula, they need to work on getting more of the Feedback requests addressed. There are many limitations on them: publishers/authors not giving rights or not getting back to them quickly enough, the time it takes to digitize books that aren't already the quickie ebook type, and priorities (if very few people would buy a book, it might not be worth their time to do it).
Besides all of that, I'm not sure why having a Logos-only based curriculum would be such a strong need. I mean what's wrong with having a bit of variety in your reading platform? Getting your eyes off the screen now and then?
No one is arguing against other curriculum formats here. And you're definitely not communicating that you understand the array of use cases people have. Like disabilities or portability.
I’m a student at redemption and all of the lectures are Logos based (using Mobile Ed courses) with extra reading resources generally in Logos.
They do use a small number of resources from another site (EBSCO)
I think when you graduate, they gift the full library of Logos that you use in the degree
Enrollment at Redemption also enables you to access academic discounts on Logos
Besides all of that, I'm not sure why having a Logos-only based curriculum would be such a strong need. I mean what's wrong with having a bit of variety in your reading platform? Getting your eyes off the screen now and then? No one is arguing against other curriculum formats here. And you're definitely not communicating that you understand the array of use cases people have. Like disabilities or portability.
I was mostly answering your surprise that there hadn't been more answers yet. Sorry if I got a bit off track in that, and for my narrowness of viewpoint. You're absolutely right about different use cases.
Redemption is really the only one I know of because it was intentionally started to be based on Logos. Existing seminaries would have to get all their professors to agree to only assign books that are available in Logos. As Rosie mentioned, professors prefer to assign the books they think are the best, not just ones available in a very exclusive format.
I finished a masters at Knox about six years ago, and at that time something like 80% of the readings were available on Logos. My guess is that it would be significantly higher now. There were a few books that I needed to get on Kindle (several of which have since become available on Logos), and the rest of the readings were provided as PDFs. I didn't have to buy anything in dead tree format. Between Logos, Kindle and a pdf reader I was covered.
I appreciate this thread. Redemption Seminary is the only seminary where the lecture content is taken from Mobile Ed. This allows nearly all the readings also to be in Logos. There are some additional digital readings provided through Redemption’s EBSCO library as well. Redemption uses mentor-professors (who represent many denominations and theological backgrounds). This structure allows students to choose the mentor they want for each course. The mentors aren’t creating lectures or assignments. Those are the same for everyone. The mentors review students' work in their workbooks, provide guidance for application, and assess their work in a live meeting (rather than a high-stakes exam).
Seminary should train students to perform rigorous research and applications without wrecking their spiritual well-being or the budget. Alan is right. Students who complete all the courses in the MABS program have their personal Logos library upgraded to the Redemption Logos library (including the Mobile Ed courses).
Redemption has a Faithlife group (https://faithlife.com/redemption-seminary/activity) where you can reach out to current students and see their experiences.
