Bridging Church History, Geopolitics, and Digital Education: A New Approach to Teaching Religious Heritage.
The paper explores the use of digital technologies in religious education by focusing on a specific initiative: the development of a virtual tour within a learning management system to teach the history of Hagia Sophia. In responding to the primary research question, inquiring into the extent that c...
| Publicado en: | Teaching Theology & Religion Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 27 - 37 |
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