Question: How Can I know more about the quality of the course-material and instruction that you offer?
Answer: We are happy that you asked. ISDET has built has several internal systems of checks and balances to ensure that, in spite of being tuition-free, our theology courses are one of the best that anyone anywhere can offer. What is more, potential students can know more about the quality of free ISDET programs by doing the following:
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Please visit the Discussion Forum under the section titled ‘Community’ and interact with our students. Ask them your questions and they will answer you frankly and openly.
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Please send us a ‘Sample Course Request’ to Webmaster@ISDET.Com On receiving your request, the Office will send you almost twenty course-modules (That would be about one-third of the subjects that you cover in any ISDET free bible courses). The office will also send you the Student Handbook that contains instructions and assignments.
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Once you have about one-third of our textbooks and the Student Handbook, you can take your time to scan through them and come to your own conclusion about the quality of the free ISDET courses.
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There is absolutely no obligation to join after you receive this sample textbooks. This means that you can keep the textbooks and Handbook even if you decide not to join.
Question: Only one or two sample textbooks would suffice. Why do you send as much as one-third of the textbooks and the Student Handbook as sample?
Answer: We send a large number of textbooks as sample based upon several considerations that are given below:
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A large-enough sample is always better for you to decide whether the quality and orthodoxy of these textbooks meet your expectation.
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The more ISDED free textbooks that you scan through, the more is the probability that you would surely join ISDET programs – if you are looking for quality.
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We are here to offer free theological education and thus we want to offer at least some training to you even if you do not join. Ideas have consequences and we wish to spread these biblical ideas free to as large a population as possible, even if they do not join as enrolled students.
Question: What is the difference between getting the above-mentioned sample textbooks to studying personally, as compared to joining as an enrolled student?
Answer: While self-study is fine, it is never a substitute for guided-study where a Mentor guides, evaluates, communicates the grade, and suggests the need/possibility for more exploration in the subject of study.
Question: What is the percentage of students who join after they request samples free textbooks from you?
Answer: Nine out of ten students come to the conclusion that the quality is much higher than they ever expected, and join promptly. One out of ten comes to the conclusion that the quality of the textbooks and the work expected from ISDET students is so high that they cannot spare time at present and decide to postpone their studies with ISDET. We consider this very good because we do not wish anyone to regret their choice after the join. Most of those who postpone join within an year or so.
Question: Do you plan to make your programs a bit more easy so that anyone can join them without having to work much to get a degree from ISDET?
Answer: NO! We plan to keep the bar very high. Our aim is not to simply allow people to earn degrees in Bible and Theology. Rather, our aim and mission is to train people in great depth and breadth in Bible and Theology. The purpose is to produce OUTSTANDING Bible expositors, pastors, teachers, evangelists, counsellors, communicators and apologists. The Christian world is in dire need of people who are deeply grounded in the Scripture and its application. Thus we only plain to keep raising the bar, and not to lower it. Getting a theological or biblical degree from ISDET will always be a tough affair, and students will have to work exceptionally hard to earn this privilege.
