{"id":42429,"date":"2014-02-04T22:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T22:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/hpost_harvard_online_course_on_the_letters_of_paul_draws_at_least_22k_stude\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T22:28:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T22:28:28","slug":"hpost_harvard_online_course_on_the_letters_of_paul_draws_at_least_22k_stude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42429","title":{"rendered":"(HPost) Harvard online course on the Letters of Paul Draws at least 22k Students From 180 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard professor Laura Nasrallah&#8217;s edX online course &#8220;Early Christianity: The Letters of Paul,&#8221; has been called the largest and most concentrated scholarly discussion of Biblical studies in history, according to edX.<\/p>\n<p>Nasrallah told The Huffington Post via email, &#8220;The day the course launched was astonishing\u201d\u201dlike drinking from a fire hose. The edX discussion threads couldn&#8217;t handle the amount of people who were commenting, and crashed and slowed down. More people participated on Poetry Genius that day than ever before\u201d\u201dthe apostle Paul beat out Beyonce!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>edX is a massive online open course (MOOC) platform founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. It&#8217;s a non-profit that delivers university-level course material to a global audience for free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/01\/21\/harvard-bible-edx-course_n_4612564.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard professor Laura Nasrallah&#8217;s edX online course &#8220;Early Christianity: The Letters of Paul,&#8221; has been called the largest and most concentrated scholarly discussion of Biblical studies in history, according to edX. Nasrallah told The Huffington Post via email, &#8220;The day<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42429\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,94,111,119,95,167,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-blogging-the-internet","category-education","category-globalization","category-science-technology","category-seminary-theological-education","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}