Andrews University + Logos Mobile Ed accreditation partnership?

I concur with your vision of Logos Mobile Ed collaborating with the Seminary and SDA theological training around the world. We got off to a great start with Jon Paulien's Eschatology Bundle--but unfortunately it hasn't sold well enough to show Faithlife that there's a market for SDAs in Mobile Ed.

My strategy then was to engage Nick Miller from the Seminary to produce something on Pastors and the Law, which is of interest far beyond our SDA world and should sell very well across the denominational spectrum. I'm hoping this initiative quickly moves forward, but timing is out of my hands.

Meanwhile, I am looking forward to visiting the Seminary shortly with Logos academic leaders for the sake of establishing wide and deep collaboration. I'm hoping we can incorporate the Adventist Learning Community as well.

So that's where we are at this point. I'll keep you updated.

Martin

All of what you are saying makes a lot of sense to me. But here's my frustration: our church believes it can do academics without Logos. I can understand, since we have such a magnificent educational system. But as we all know, Logos has a huge edge in technology, and our church is slow to learn that what they think is digital high tech really isn't.

As to the expense of Logos Mobile Ed, I wish I could tell you how much money Faithlife invested in producing Paulien's eschatology bundle. I'll just say that lots of support people in the US work full time for the church getting paid less than what Faithlife invested in producing that bundle.

In the past I have reached out several times to Adventist Learning Center and have gotten no response, not even a phone call or email. I'm hoping in person to meet with ALC when I'm at Andrews (the date for which is still up in the air--I'm checking multiple times every week to see if they can get the date of that visit nailed down--there was illness with one of the faculty coordinators that delayed our visit).

Tim, all those video learning courses mentioned above seem magnificent. I long to have them all in Logos. However, Logos can't incorporate them into Mobile Ed. The Logos system requires professors to come here--otherwise all they need to do can't get done. 

Meanwhile, we can do what Reimar has done--and perhaps get others to do that for a Faithlife SDA YouTube channel.

Summarizing: both SDA academia and Logos have highly efficient systems, and it's difficult to facilitate collaboration. God helped me with Jon Paulien, and I connected Nick Miller according to the strategy I previously described. At least we've got things started.

The only thing I can directly implement myself is a scholarly presentation I've been asked to give at the Adventist Society of Religious Studies next month in Atlanta (at AAR, preceding SBL). My paper will be on the theological and philosophical mandate and benefits of interfaith collabortion--specifically the need for Adventists to collaborate with compatible non-SDA organizations like Faithlife. Someone at the Seminary who chairs the ASRS committee actually approved me making the scholarly case for SDAs collaborating with Logos.

Please pray for that, and everything we hope to get done meanwhile.  Thanks!