Tag: education
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MMU Law School inaugural lecture: regulation & shared space
The title is Transforming legal education? The regulatory value of shared space. The question mark queries whether or not a shared space approach does, or at least have the potential to, transform legal education. I’ve never doubted it personally through my career, but I need to persuade you, dear reader and lecture attender. Below are…
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Nil sine labore
It’s the motto of the Catholic secondary school I attended, St Mungo Academy (1968-1974), when it was nominally run by Marist Brothers though most of the staff were lay teachers. The previous four years I’d attended a Catholic primary boarding school, St Columba Preparatory College in Largs, where I was also taught by Marist Brothers.…
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LETR conference: Professional Panel
The panel comprised three representatives of regulatory bodies. First up, Julie Brannan, Director of Education and Training. Her slide points out which of LETR recommendations the SRA accepted: She also pointed out the themes that were recognised by the SRA and the evidence drawn upon. She also outlined the SRA response, its view of regulation,…
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‘Curriculum is technology’: Affordances of ePortfolios.
This is the title of a plenary I gave in ANU on Friday at the launch of the university’s ePortfolio. Slides at the tab above and on Slideshare. I was also on the panel discussion, and later videotaped in interview for the website. Sections of the talk: Research design and reflective journalling: a case study…
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Badges – who do we trust, and why?
I’ve been interested in badges for a while now, and impressed with what the good folks over at Mozilla have been doing to create open badges. There’s a badge kit, discussed here, and you can carry your badges around in your backpack. Cool stuff.
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SLS Conference, Legal Education, Law Teacher Special Issue session
This was the first session on Day 2 of the SLS Conference Legal Education section, a session devoted to the Special Issue on Learning/Technology, The Law Teacher, vol 50 issue 1 [paywall], that was published earlier this year, edited by me. That issue, comprising six papers and discussed on this blog post, was entitled Learning/Technology because I wanted…
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SLS conference 2016, Legal Education section, plenary
I was asked to give a plenary talk to the SLS Legal Education section. I invited Dirk Rodenburg, Director of Undergraduate and Professional Programs from Queen’s University Law School, Ontario, to join me to talk about his new simulation platform as part of the presentation, and to talk about his unique blending of medical and…
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BILETA conference 2015
Am giving a paper at BILETA 2015, entitled ‘Disintermediation and legal education’. Slides up on Slideshare and at the Slides tab above. Abstract: Disintermediation is a concept well-understood in almost all industries. At its simplest, it refers to the process by which intermediaries in a supply chain are eliminated, most often by digital re-engineering of…
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The provincial, the global and the inner émigré
About a month ago I was out at Murrumbateman, visiting a couple of colleagues. Craig and Skye invited some of us from Legal Workshop out to their fine house for dinner and a performance of Macbeth – in a winery, Shaws. Think Birnam Wood translated to a vineyard. The tiny touring company chose well. Macbeth is…
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Vellum – the long view of data infrastructure
Yestreen I wanted to look at an activity I put together for students, oh way back in 1995. I’m sure every law teacher has a similar one. It was on statutory interpretation, written up briefly in this book chapter. I located the file, clicked — and got the wee MS Word for Mac dialogue saying,…