How Online Courses Work
After you have registered and paid:
Within a few days of having registered and paid for your course, you will receive an email from the instructor welcoming you into the course. This email contains the following basic information:
- The date you can access your course
- How to set up and modify your profile
- How to navigate the site, find assignments, and post responses
- A reminder to have an electronic photo of yourself to paste into your profile
Three days before the course begins, we will send you the weblink and the password we have established for the course you are registered for.
At that point, you have access to the course. You can set up your profile, and access Week One assignments, readings and forums, as well as the instructor's office where you can post any questions you might have.
When you enter the course, you will find the content and first assignments as well as links to internet resources used for the course.
System requirements for Online Courses:
The following are the technical requirements for online course participation:
Easy access to a computer with internet connection, preferably but not necessary, with high speed connection
The computer system is one of the following: Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X, NetWare and any other systems that support PHP, including most webhost providers
Nature of the coursework:
Online courses offered through the Center for Mindful Inquiry are "asynchronous," which means that you can log on and use the course materials at any time for the duration of the course. ((The guided meditations and all other course material as well as the discussion forum are available at all times.))
When you enroll in a course at the Center for Mindful Inquiry, you begin a process of transformative learning that takes place through the connection with several intelligence and wisdom pathways. First of all, you establish a direct contact to mindfulness meditation instructions and you use this non-traditional wisdom pathway to connect to deeper levels of insight that are available to all of us, but accessed by few. Second, each week, you read an article, an essay, or a chapter of a book in order to connect with ideas and concepts about Mindfulness practices and their interface with your professional work in the world. The work with ideas and concepts uses the traditional pathway of linear and logical reasoning. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you become part of a community of like-minded learners who dialogue several times throughout the week so that the learning is grounded in your experience and your reality. You also establish a relationship with and have access to the instructor who is experienced in both mindfulness meditation and its applications in professional contexts. Through discussion with the teacher, with individuals in the group, and with the whole group taking the course, you use the pathway of experience and conversation that has been used in both traditional and non-traditional educational environments for millennia.
CMI contracts ImaginAction to host our online courses. The ImaginAction team of experts supports the delivery of our online courses. Their organization supports academic course delivery to universities and private institutions like us worldwide.
