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  • Day 2, CALI conference: Building the Casebook (Gene Koo, John Mayer)

    Session on the future of the casebook, headed up by Gene and John Mayer, based around the CALI e-Langdell initiative, built on Druple. One of the motives behind this is the attempt to create distributed authorship — more, better, faster. Can it work?

  • Lunchtime, CALI day 2: SIMPLE case study

    SIMPLE was given a good airing on the first day of the conference both at the plenary and also at a lunch time ‘birds of a feather’ session. Today we gave a third lunch time session, in which we took folk through a case study and showed how the tools were used. Since the session…

  • Day 2, CALI conference: Patrick Wiseman

    Attended Patrick Wiseman‘s session, ‘The Rich Syllabus’. Consisted of an overview of the evolution of Patrick’s syllabus Property I, from basic HTML in the mid- to late-nineties, through VLE use to Google Earth, podcasts, loosely-coupled pages etc (he even has an RSS feed to podcasts of the class meetings and whiteboard). It’s rare that someone…

  • Day 2: CALI conference

    Meetings, meetings — great to see folk, and talk about projects. Fascinating conversation with Conrad Johnson about the realist reforms at Columbia in the 1920s, which I discuss in my book, chapter three. While I was concerned to analyse the effects of Dewey and Thorndike on the reforms, and look at the line of curriculum…

  • Gene Koo: the nuts & bolts of using MediaNotes to teach skills

    Good session in which Gene Koo of CALI & Berkman Centre, Harvard Law School took us through the detail of using MediaNote. Annotation software is linked to a tagging facility, so that tags can be linked to events that are noted on the timeline. This is useful not just for interviewing but for any form…

  • Larry Farmer: Joining deliberate practice methods with technology

    Larry’s session updated his work on MediaNote. I attended this session not just because Larry’s stuff is always interesting and based on solid reflective practice, but because Karen and I have spent the earlier part of this week at the Franklin Pierce Law Centre, training standardized clients. More of that in a later posting. Larry’s…

  • CALI day 1

    Gave the keynote on simulation and learning at the CALI conference. Conference session wiki is here. Also gave an informal session here on the same subject. Lots of interested questions from delegates.

  • SCI and SIMPLE

    Next week I’ll be involved in two types of simulation activities. First, Karen Barton and I are travelling to Franklin Pierce Law Centre, Concord, New Hampshire to train around eight standardized clients for the Daniel Webster Scholar Honours Programme there. We’ll spend two intensive days training lay people to be SCs, ad amongst others we’ll…

  • SIMPLE Launch event – 9 & 10 June, 2008, Scarman House, U. of Warwick

    Proceedings opened with Patricia McKellar welcoming the 50 or so delegates to the conference, and previewing what folk would be seeing, namely the software we used, and the initial results from the projects that made up the larger SIMPLE project. Delegates included representatives from HEA and JISC as well as representatives from a broad span…

  • SIMPLE Launch event

    On Monday and Tuesday the SIMPLE project is hosting its final event, and is launching the SIMPLE Foundation. The event, sponsored by original project funds from JISC and UKCLE, and generously supplemented by both UKCLE and BILETA, will be held in Scarman House, University of Warwick. Agenda is on the provisional SIMPLE Foundation site. There…

  • The End of Lawyers? Re-thinking the nature of legal services

    Spent two days in early May at Ross Priory, Strathclyde University’s retreat house on the shore of Loch Lomond at the Law School’s Centre for Professional Legal Studies (CPLS) Think Tank. Wonderful weather, great talks where all 22 participants engaged in a Chatham House style environment. The retreat was chaired by Alan Paterson, and led…

  • SIMPLE and plagiarism

    Last week I was asked to present at a HEA conference, Grasping the nettle: designing assessment to reduce plagiarism, held in the Oxford Centre. The keynote speaker, Jude Carroll, started proceedings with a forthright piece on the importance of learning & teaching design and assessment alternatives. Very interesting points raised. Key questions in the authentication…