Tag: GGSL

  • Multimedia, multimodal: rip, mix, replay

    I gave a paper at Osgoode Professional Development (OPD) yesterday, on ‘Multimedia learning: 2002-18: A case study across a century of digital learning’ – slides beneath the Slides tab above.  Our focus in the workshop was the design of a set of multimedia resources in 2002/4 at the Glasgow Graduate School of Law (GGSL), and…

  • In their spare time

    Saw this recently on Legal Futures, one of my favourite online sources of professional legal news in E+W: Law students build app aimed at helping crime victims My eye was caught by this sentence: Mr Bull, LawBot’s founder and managing director, who is German and speaks six languages, wrote the software. So just to slow…

  • Learning & teaching seminars, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law

    I’m a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, and I spent last week giving seminars and discussing projects with staff — seminars given to first year LLB students, doctoral students, and JD/LLM students; and to staff, on webcasts, podcasts, multimedia and other digital resources. On the last subject, see…

  • Our online PBL JD at ANU College of Law – a personal history

    On problem-based learning (PBL), Barrows & Tamblyn (1976) and Barrows (1986) are the key early texts.  I remember coming across the first in the mid-1980s (not sure how, maybe a conversation with a medical student I’d known since undergrad days, she’d been attracted to it, after her own dismal medical education), following my doctorate and…

  • Experiential learning & simulated clients

      Just finished reading a fine report on experiential learning, with simulated clients at the core of the analysis.  The report is published by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), as part of its legal education initiative, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, and is entitled Ahead of the Curve: Turning Law Students…