Tag: alt

  • 50 years of assessment in legal education – liveblog, pm

    Post-lunch now, and Penny English, Anglia Ruskin U first up, on ‘Using posters as a means of summative assessment’.  She defined it from Handron 1994 as ‘an experiential learning activity that stimulates curiosity and interest, encourages exploration and integration of concepts and provides students with a novel way of demonstrating understanding.’  As she pointed out,…

  • LETR read, misread, unread

    I’ve been at three LETR-related events the last couple of weeks — the seminar at UCL on Legal Innovation — How Should the Educators Respond,   a SLS/IALS event, The Role of Academics in Legal Education & Training, and a LERN event — After the LETR, what should we be researching and how.  I was speaking…

  • ALTA thoughts

    Very enjoyable conference.  This was my first ALTA, and as I said in the keynote I learned so much about what was going on in legal education in Australia from those sessions (which were the majority of the conference streams) on the subject.  You could say of course that I was talking about a sample…