Tag: PEARL

  • SLS workshops: Problem-based learning workshop @ York University Law School

    At last year’s SLS conference in St Catherine’s College, Oxford Caroline Strevens (Legal Education section convenor) and I discussed having a number of workshops on innovative topics in legal education that bridged the gap between one conference and the next.  Nigel Duncan joined us, then Scott Slorach, and before we knew it, we had a…

  • Learning/technology in legal education – slideset links

    Links to the complete slideset here: Paul Maharg, Introduction Craig Collins, ‘Story interface and strategic design for new law curricula‘ Kristoffer Greaves, ‘Computer-aided qualitative data analysis of social media for teachers and students in legal education‘ Scott Chamberlain, ‘Affordable software simulations for teaching legal practice‘. Paul Maharg, ‘Disintermediation‘.

  • Learning/Technology Workshop, PEARL, ANU College of Law

    Today we’ve got a session at ANU College of Law PEARL centre, entitled Learning/Technology in Legal Education.  The session is another version of the Society of Legal Scholars session held last year in St Catherine’s College, Oxford; but with two new speakers — Kristoffer Greaves, who wrote one of the articles in the original special…

  • Legal Education in Crisis? Workshop, Panel 5

    Panel 5 was a Roundtable: Research Groups on Legal Education over a working lunch.  Beth Mertz was working us hard…  Present was the Association of American Law Schools (Jeff Allum, Pablo Molina).  Pablo introduced the services and media of AALS, including the Journal of Legal Education.  Jeff introduced the Before the JD project.   Next, the…

  • Learning & teaching seminars, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law

    I’m a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, and I spent last week giving seminars and discussing projects with staff — seminars given to first year LLB students, doctoral students, and JD/LLM students; and to staff, on webcasts, podcasts, multimedia and other digital resources. On the last subject, see…

  • The PhD and beyond[:] the apprenticeship model of learning

    At the kind invitation of Mary Spiers-Williams, I gave a seminar to our doctoral students here at ANU College of Law, last Friday.  For some reason WordPress refuses to render the slideset at the usual tab above, so you’ll find them over at Slideshare. The title is a sort of pun: the colon is and isn’t…