Horizon serves as a facilitator and educational resource provider in the task of leadership training through Education Partners (EPs). Our goal is to help the Education Partner (EP) be effective in training Christian leaders for ministry, be it in the local church or for service around the world, using online distance-learning courses and tools. To accomplish this goal, Horizon:
- Facilitates the implementation of a tool to help the EP evaluate and periodically review its purpose, mission, and vision, develop and implement its curriculum, and determine appropriate educational and administrative models
- Helps EPs integrate online educational tools throughout their educational programs
- Offers to assist EPs in the development of online, theological education programs in their language and culture that meet locally recognized standards
- Assists in the development of local programs of study that help leaders cultivate a global missional vision, resulting in church multiplication and missionary outreach
- Provides faculty and administrative training for EPs
- Provides distance-learning, hybrid, and technology-enhanced models that take theological education to the student already in ministry or to the Christian leader who has difficulty accessing traditional training programs due to constraints of time, distance, security, lack of resources, or ministry context
To offer effective educational programs of study around the world, Horizon assists EPs in three spheres of development:
- Curriculum development – Review and evaluation of the school’s current programs and curricular needs, leading to the development of enhanced curricular models using educational technologies
- Administrative development – Administrative tools and training that encourage sustainability, making use of online, educational technologies across the school’s programs
- Faculty development – Training online facilitators to teach and develop online courses, effectively using educational technologies for authentic learning
Although courses are currently being produced in eight different languages through Horizon’s Global Associates, Horizon is currently focusing its offerings in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Russian.