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Zeugma is now a team.  Karen Barton, Sefton Bloxham, Patricia McKellar have all agreed to join the blog.  Karen is a colleague at the GGSL, as was Patricia until recently (now with the UK Centre for Legal Education); and Sefton is based at Edgehill and Lancaster.  Karen comes from a background in IT with IBM,…

Anyone interested in simulations has to read the Terranova blog.  Talking with Martin Owen of Nesta Futurelab recently, we both agreed that the concept of ‘serious games’ was incredibly important, and needs money and theory and practice. But not everyone has taken up simulations as enthusiastically as some educationalists, and it’s worthwhile bearing in mind…

More staff development, this time in Portsmouth University .  The question of the reliability of information on the wikis arose, and the question was generalised to blogs: can students trust the information they find in blogs?  Two answers: 1. No, and it’s a good thing too.  2. When was there ever a source of information…

Spent an absorbing day talking with City Law School staff on Friday, undergrad & postgrad courses, about IT and legal education, especially the use of social software like del.icio.us and blogs, and of course the potential of the web for simulation learning.  Travelling back, it struck me that peer-to-peer sharing has led to the development…

The Internet acts as a type of Rorschach test for educational philosophy.  When some people look at the Internet, they see it as a new way to deliver instruction.  When other people look at it, they see a huge database for students to explore.  When I look at the Internet, I see a new medium…

Gave a paper today at the LILI conference on glossae and hypertext — .ppt version to be put up on the site soon, and it’ll form a chapter of the book on legal education I’m writing.  It occurred to me as I was actually speaking (as you do..) that there was an interesting comparison between…

On Wednesday, at the Dept for Constitutional Affairs, Consultative Conference, giving a version of a paper on learning outcomes I gave to the LPC conference earlier this year.  Such an amorphous subject to be covered in so short a time, and a huge research field.  All I could really do was give an overview of…

                            Senior Teaching FellowLaw SchoolBowland NorthLancaster UniversityLA1 4YN Tel:      Lancaster 592458Email:  s.bloxham@lancaster.ac.uk Sefton enrolled at Lancaster, as a mature student, for an LLB, 1980-83. Prior to enrolling as a law student he’d spent ten years in a variety of jobs, inter alia, silk screen printer,…

Patricia McKellar E-Learning AdvisorUK Centre for Legal EducationDepartment of LawUniversity of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL patricia.mckellar@warwick.ac.uk Patricia joined the UK Centre for Legal Education, part of the Higher Education Academy, in December 2005. As E-Learning Advisor her remit is to support and develop e-learning in UK Law Schools. She is primarily involved in identifying, monitoring,…

We all have exam stories.  My first experience of an open book exam was a memorable one.  It happened in a literature course, on seventeenth century English prose, and we were allowed to take into the exam hall one of the key course texts.  I took in a copy of Bacon’s Essays, apprehensively, having written…

Paper is at the bottom of the list of Publications, to the left.  I welcome discussion of the issues raised at the session.  Reminder of the points on the last slide: How can professional legal educational systems change to encourage innovation in education? What part can students play in professional legal educational reform, with regard…