Category: Digital education

  • Metacognition & simulation

    I took part in a staff session that was organised at Manchester Law School recently by Dr Kryss Macleod. The topic was metacognition, what it was, how it could be used to improve our students’ legal education. Kryss took the lead, had done a ton of work in preparation including her slides and an online…

  • Panel session: The Role of AI and Legal Education, Westminster U Law School

    A couple of weeks ago I spoke on a panel session at a one-day conference organised by Westminster U Law School – The Role of AI and legal education: Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers.  I was on annual leave at the time, in Florence, so attended only the panel not the whole conference, but…

  • My first experience of digital education

    After I finished my Arts doctoral thesis and Education qualifications, and before I turned to Law, I worked as a part-time tutor in the Eng Lit dept at Glasgow University.  I kept in touch with my medieval tutor, Des O’Brien, who was an extraordinary polymath.  In 1987 he obtained a grant from the Computers in…