The "cluster questions" are sets of questions grouped by cluster that help you to practice the ideas and skills with which this class is working.

During the online version of this class, in the fall of 2009, we will work with five focus situations, and use five clusters of questions to engage them. The situations are embedded in each week's content. The cluster questions are as follows:

• biblical ideas and learning
• ritual practices and learning
• the history of religious education, and individual faith community histories
• the art of learning design
• the art of assessing learning

Each week each small group will work with one cluster of questions, mulling them over amongst themselves, and then posting a concluding summary to the course blog. Those summaries will then become further food for thought in our final large group discussion each week.