Andrew Peterson
Reformed Theological Seminary, Virtual Campus
Since 1997, Dr. Peterson has directed distance education for graduate theological education from Charlotte, North Carolina for Reformed Theological Seminary, Virtual Campus. Additional professional work includes business consulting with Cathedral Consulting Group, LLC and educational technology with Digital Vistas Carolina, LLC.
Over the past dozen years, Andy has developed a “virtual campus” for the education of hundreds of graduate students at a school in the Southeast USA, Reformed Theological Seminary. With headquarters in Charlotte, the student body is worldwide. This formal degree program makes the most use of distance education of any accredited seminary in the world. Using online promotion, sales, and delivery, positive net revenue has been gained year to year. To date, RTS/Virtual has over 30 courses, including church history, systematic theology, biblical studies, pastoral counseling, Christian education, and online Greek and Hebrew language instruction.
Andy’s professional road map has been from licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania at a community mental health center, to a professor of psychology for business psychology and teacher training courses for Grove City College, a four-year liberal arts college north of Pittsburgh, to a professor of practical theology at Westminster Seminary in California and educational technologist at Santa Fe Foundation in Solana Beach, and then to University of California, San Diego to establish the first Multimedia Development Center for faculty development of digital presentations in 1995 (just as the Internet hit!). While in southern California, he consulted with businesses and schools on the use of educational technology. He continues to do that with the “virtual campus” concept now as well as doing business reviews and board services. Long-term professional themes are education, counseling and business with help from theology as well as technology. Tours in higher education have been at Western Washington University (BA, Psychology), University of California, Berkeley (MA, Educational Psychology), and University of Pittsburgh (PhD, Educational Communications and Technology).