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  • Papay Convivium

    Well, the convivium was held on Papay the first week of July, and what a remarkable experience it turned out to be.  I’ve been to many conferences, in many different formats.  This one was unique.  First, it was intense and focused.  Michael McGhee and I took turns to chair the sessions, and with more time…

  • Nottingham Law School, Centre for Legal Education

    I’ve accepted a position as a part-time professor in Nottingham Law School, starting this month, and concurrent with my position at ANU.  I’ll be working on research and publication projects with staff in the Centre for Legal Education (CLE) where there’s synergy with the projects that I’ll be setting up  in the Centre at ANU,…

  • European Journal of Law & Technology: BILETA special edition

    The latest issue of EJLT is out, and it’s a special edition, edited by Sefton Bloxham and me, consisting of papers from the 2012 BILETA (British & Irish Law Education Technology Association) legal education stream.  The conference was liveblogged on this blog.  Surprisingly, and against the run of recent conferences, there was a surge of…

  • Papay Convivium

    Eager readers of this blog, both of them, will have noticed that there’s a new tab top right for something called the Papay Convivium, which was trailed here.  What it’s all about is on the tab, so I won’t spoil your anticipation, except to say, modestly, that it’s an attempt to re-define and transform the nature…

  • Australian National University

    Apologies to readers of this blog for my recent silence — LETR has been soaking up all available waking hours.  Other matters too: last week I resigned from Northumbria Law School.  I have accepted a full-time professorial post at the Australian National University’s College of Law, and will be starting there in March 2013.

  • Modestly big data for legal education

    The Human Face of Big Data has been splashed across screens & newsprint the last few days — see The Guardian’s excellent Datablog article, and Scientific American for summaries of what it’s about.  According to Rick Smolens, one of the two founders, it will last for two months, asks respondents 60 questions via a mobile…

  • Parallel play

    I first came across the idea of parallel play way back in 1980/81 when I was doing a postgrad Dip in Education at Glasgow U. It was one of those many fascinating ideas that seemed to say so much to me about the possibilities of play in education. As far as I remember the idea…

  • Question Time session

    Chaired by Joshua Rozenberg – Diane Burleigh, Ashley Chambers, Peter Crisp CE BPP, Tony King, Taryn Lee QC, Julian Webb, Wes Pue on panel.  Vigorous questioning by Joshua in true Question Time fashion.  First question on employers and students: a variety of answers.  Wes gave the situation in Canada, and what he wanted to see…

  • Parallel session 1

    I attended Alex Roy (LSB), and Prof Rob Wilson (Warwick U, LETR consultant) on Identifying and Developing the Future Workforce.  Alex kicked off: large number of firms, mostly small (2-4 partners — over 20% of the workforce re solicitors, much larger proportion of law firms in E+W), few large firms.  Turnover looks like the internet…

  • Red LETR day… LETR Symposium, day 1, pm

    First session in the afternoon was a session on the three scenarios LETR has drawn up.  Very interesting feedback on the three regulatory models from my small group which included great international lawyers & educators such as Alan Treleaven, Paul Woods Afternoon keynote was Susskind on how we can train 21st century lawyers.  We don’t:…

  • Same strokes for different folks: making best use of existing digital systems

    Next up, Sarah Chesney (Independent) and Melissa Shaw, U of Cumbria on the story of introducing personal learning and performance and professional development review (PPDR) at the U of Cumbria (UC).  Session wandered a bit, and so did yr notetaker, and there was another staged dialogue (just doesn’t work for me); but this was about…

  • iTunes U: learning and Research Channel for Students, Showcase to the World

    Martin Bean showcased this in his keynote, so no pressure for the presenter, Terese Bird of Leicester U…  iTunes U as a channel for OER is disputed, but she was looking at the educational value of it, particularly by OU, Oxford, and her university, Leicester.  She was reporting on the findings of a SCORE project…