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Convergence and fragmentation
I’m giving a paper today at Melbourne Law School, by kind invitation of Gary Cazalet, title ‘Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, informatics and legal education’. Slides up on the Slides page above. The paper is a version of draft chapter five of a book I’m writing, Genealogies of Legal Education (interim chapter titles in the…
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Referendum
MacDiarmid had the words for it: The rose of all the world is not for me. I want for my part Only the little white rose of Scotland That smells sharp and sweet – and breaks the heart. In truth the Referendum vote, Yes and No, is a continuum into the future. In that future…
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3rd Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference, day 3, am
Final day, focusing on how assessment was being carried out throughout the ETL Consortium. Four 15 min presentations: ‘Are experiential modules really better? Qualitative assessment for student learning’, Christine Cerniglia Brown and Monica Hof Wallace (Loyola U New Orleans College of Law). ‘Assessing the “Roadmap for Employment” Experiment, Neil Hamilton, U of St Tomas School…
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3rd Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference, day 2, pm session 2
George Brandes now, talking about Making Sense of Assessment Data, and in particular Learning from Online Assessment. George is Exec Director of Concord Law School of Kaplan University, LA. Interesting analysis of designing at programme level via designing at more detailed, learning outcome level. He sees the issue being one of moving up and down…
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Dangerous research
I’ve been catching up on and re-reading the recent regulatory literature coming from the ABA, now that I’m here in the USA and discussing experiential learning, assessment and much else with Roberto Corrada and his colleagues at Sturm Law School, University of Denver. The ABA Task Force report & recommendations that came out earlier this year…
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Letter from America
I’m in the US, by kind invitation of Roberto Corrada at Sturm College of Law, University of Denver and the IAALS conference, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers. More of this in my next posts. But this post is about something else. I was sorry to see the Guardian come out for the No campaign in its editorial last…
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Scottish independence: future historical counterfactuals
In my post on the Scottish independence debate I quoted the distinguished medieval historian Geoffrey Barrow’s words from his inaugural lecture when he was made Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography at Edinburgh U in 1980, entitled The Extinction of Scotland: Now and again a picture comes into my mind, a scene from the…
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Independence declarations
There’s a new sub-genre of blog-posts appearing — the independence declarations of academics. Some great ones out there — see Malcolm Combes and Peter Matthews — engaging, wide-ranging and better argued than my own effort. Have you come across others? Drop me a line in the comments if you have. What I love about being in…
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ILEC 2014: Summary thoughts
My thanks to Nigel Duncan and Andy Boone for organising ILEC. It’s a difficult conference to map out because it’s so wide-ranging in its remit. That it succeeded is down not just to Nigel and Andy’s hard work and sensitivity in organising the sessions but to everyone’s willingness to be there and open their own…