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Teaching professional skills to distance learning students through the medium of film
designing and producing training and assessment films to illustrate client care skills. The presenters’ slides are embedded below, and you can also download their full paper (Word file, 5 pages, 56 KB) at the bottom of the page. Films are widely used to train, educate …
Teaching of statute law: research into provision of current methods and provision of teaching aids
Conference in 2011. A series of short films regarding the production and use of legislation will be produced. There will be between two and three hours of film, broken down into fifteen minute segments to make them as attractive to and digestible by students as possible. A fil…
Back to the (academic) future
Back to the (academic) future is a short film commissioned to coincide with UKCLE’s 10th anniversary and premièred at the Learning in Law annual conference. In the film Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Fiona Cownie (Keele University), Richard de Friend (Coll…
Visions of legal education
to the (academic) future – a short film capturing the opinions of leading legal education scholars and practitioners about the past, present and future of legal education in the UK – view the film and download a copy to use in staff development events Two sessions …
What makes a good law lecturer?
required the students to complete a short film on their chosen research topic and make this available to others in the field. The Warwick law students planned the project as a series of interviews with key staff and devised questions which they felt reflected the points they wan…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2010: Perspectives on progress
(academic) future, UKCLE’s 10th anniversary film, part of our Visions of legal education session and resources. Learning in law 2010 refreshed my enthusiasm for teaching Visit the papers archive for all the full papers and slides Focusing on the theme of ‘Pers…
'On trial': tutor as silent witness
prior experiences and passive consumption of films and TV programmes to their studies as a context and vehicle for active learning relevant to their own discipline. The ’On trial’ approach To support the development of graphic design students as specialist creative pract…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2009: Concepts of culture in legal education
presentations delivered al fresco, through film and using interactive technology. The conference, blogged on Digital Directions, hEaD space and Zeugma, was itself more hi-tech this year, with the introduction of a conference wiki and the use of SlideShare to share and store pres…
Beyond text in legal education
introduction to the project, and then showed a film of a project workshop which took place in Edinburgh in December 2008. Participants included academics and practising lawyers from the UK and the USA. Being able to watch (rather than just listen to or read about) the activit…
Doing diagnostics: accounting for progress in student communications and advocacy
needs little space (just a room in which to film) and can be accomplished in relatively short sessions of no more than 30 minutes. When students see themselves on video they generally self correct whatever idiosyncratic behaviors and deficiencies that might be getting in the way…
Integrating sustainability concepts in an environmental law module
were devoted to showing and discussing the film The power of the community: how Cuba survived peak oil. This was done partly as a bit of light relief from some rather dry regulatory subject matter around the International Plant Protection Convention, and partly to keep the focus…
Using SIMPLE at the University of Stirling School of Law
simulation, built around an incident on a film set, lasted one week and replaced a tutorial. The lecturer took the role of partner in a law firm with the students playing the roles of lawyers. At the end of the simulation the students had to submit a report. Building the simul…
What quality assurance issues does the use of mooting as an assessment component pose?
room, since the judge/s cannot possibly film whilst sitting. An additional person in the room adds to the resources required for the module. For this reason some institutions record only audio, but much of a moot presentation is visual rather than audio, and thus it is these asp…
Good people speaking well: legal education through modern languages
level and have a familiarity with texts, film, books etc, but do not have a familiarity with law, which they find more difficult the added value in terms of skills (engagement in analytical and evaluative thinking, developing problem solving) ensures that the students do enoug…
Law Student 2002: a profile of law students in Scotland
some cited fictional accounts of lawyers in film, literature or TV to be a factor in course choice. (There is perhaps scope for further research into the influence of the media on students’ decision to study law.) A desire to help others was not the most important factor whe…
Papers and posters presented at the 2010 conference
learning students through the medium of film – Edward Stone, Elizabeth Harding & Lisa Kidger (ILEX Tutorial College) Creative critical learning: Act 2 – Grier Palmer (University of Warwick) Developing critical thinking: student perspectives on the teach…
Beyond text in legal education
workshops our project outputs include a film (WMV file) and a collection of essays (currently in preparation). We also aim to provide a webpage with relevant resources, especially descriptions of the activities and instructions for how to introduce them into the workplace or the…
New lawyers - new horizons? What kind of lawyers do we need?
mockingbird, played by Gregory Peck in the film version, the fictional creation of all that is best in the traditional model of the lawyer who gives his all in a court battle for his client, no matter how unpopular. If with what I hope is a somewhat prosaic but still acceptable …
Creativity in the law curriculum
range of media depictions available on both film and TV (suitable sources were provided in the bundle), and a student from the year above was appointed as judge to keep order. From Kirsten’s perspective this must have been quite a traumatic experience. Would it work? Wo…
Integrating reflective practice into the curriculum
produced or articulated through the medium of film or photograph. Defining what we mean by plagiarism is central to the prevention of such activities, as it makes explicit to staff and students what is and is not acceptable. There is evidence to suggest that some students…
Intellectual property for engineers: a curriculum development project
Web publishers, the design artists and the film makers, and the people who are computer scientists and entrepreneurs and say “intellectual property is affecting you and you ought to be thinking about how it’s affecting you”. This is something in which we have t…
Moving outside the box?
and in groups review unrelated book and film materials such as The life of Pi or West Side Story relatively unstructured strategy cases, with presentations using the post modern text Images of strategy (Cummings & Wilson 2003) in an elective for third year business undergr…
Was it necessary to go all the way to Australia?
months ago whilst watching a documentary film on the treatment of female teachers and female students under Taliban rule, a young Afghani girl provided me with an excellent definition of a mentor/teacher. The reporter asked the girls in the classroom: what is a teacher? The y…
Using the virtual learning environment
however assumes a dedicated professional film crew, experienced media developers and a team of expert writers – the content development aspect of a legal research multimedia tutorial (writing the story boards and filming the webcast) is estimated to take 6.5 working days …
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