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Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Religious topics are limited. Try searching specific religions like "Buddhism."

This pdf is an entire 200 page book published by Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina 2014). It contains twenty-three chapters, by different authors, exploring the benefits and disadvantages of the recent educational phenomenon known as Massive Open Online Courses (acronym, MOOC). 

Similar to Pinterest,but for teaching. This site helps you create a vVirtual "pinboard" for course projects Students can pin any form of multimedia content and create a digital learning portfolio.

Ideal for group projects. Members can bookmark and tab webpages and highlight important passages for each other.

This site would allow you to "flip your classroom" by sending students to these free online courses. The site includes religion courses from Harvard, MIT, Stanford.

This is a mobile app that allows the professor to award points "on the go" using their smartphone. Obviously aimed at K-12 teachers, but useful as well in higher education.

Place-based pedagogy offers students a distinctive way to be attentive to a particular expression of a given religion while enabling them to minimize generalizations on the basis of that experience. Place-based pedagogies decenter the traditional classroom as the sole locus of learning and emphasize the value of learning within varied spatial frameworks including undeveloped natural environments and built environments in rural, suburban, or urban communities. This article, set in Brooklyn, New York, is a case study of place-based teaching in an urban context. “Brooklyn and Its Religions” is a course that provides students with a place to explore diverse expressions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The article describes the course and analyzes students' field reports in two settings to demonstrate the value of place-based learning for studying religion in Brooklyn.

Colorful infographic on the flipped classroom from Knewton.com. Explains: What is the flipped classroom; How it came to be; What’s driving it; and What it looks like.