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Download full textCurro, Gina; Ainswroth, Nussen – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Recently embraced by the legal profession to make justice more accessible, social media (SM) is fast becoming the primary tool of communication for the courts. In Australia today the Supreme Court of Victoria uses SM to share judgments, media releases, publications, speeches and other information. On the County Court of Victoria home page, one can…
Descriptors: Social Media, Legal Education (Professions), Foreign Countries, Law Schools
Direct linkWalker, Sonia; Hobson, Julia – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2014
Aligned assessment is a cornerstone of higher education curriculum design. Yet, it does not address the problem of how students learn "how" they should proceed when faced with a new assessment task. That teaching task is often left to the role of "feedback". This article examines changes to a first year law unit, introduced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Legal Education (Professions), Alignment (Education), Student Evaluation
Douglas, Susan – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2015
"Thinking like a lawyer" is traditionally associated with rational-analytical problem solving and an adversarial approach to conflict. These features have been correlated with problems of psychological, or emotional, distress amongst lawyers and law students. These problems provide a strong argument for incorporating a consideration of…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Legal Education (Professions), Lawyers, Problem Solving
Matthew, Anne; Butler, Des – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
In Australian law schools didactic pedagogies such as lectures devoted to the transmission of theory and knowledge to a largely passive audience still predominate. However, curriculum design embedding authentic learning pedagogies has been shown to be supportive of student learning. The challenge in adopting such curriculum design is how to offer…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Law Students, Curriculum Design, Case Studies
Habel, Chad; Stubbs, Matthew – Research in Learning Technology, 2014
This article reports on an action-research project designed to investigate the effect of a technological intervention on the complex interactions between student engagement, participation, attendance and preparation in a large lecture delivered as part of a compulsory first-year law course, a discipline which has not been the focus of any previous…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Voting, Law Students, Law Schools
Roebuck, Joanne – Journal of Learning Design, 2007
This paper reports on the use of reflexive practice activities designed to enhance learning for first year law students at James Cook University, Australia. The paper considers various aspects of student learning and explores connections between reflexive practice and concepts such as deep learning, understanding, motivation and engagement, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Law Students, Reflection
