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Autonomy and the ability to learn
students and the development of learner autonomy Completion date: November 2004 UKCLE funding: £2,820 This project was a three year longitudinal study of the development of learner autonomy, focusing on the student perception and experience of learning. Project aims to…
General transferable skills: autonomy and personal skills
Level Able to: work effectively with limited autonomy in well structured situations judge performance based largely on the criteria set by others recognise own strengths and weaknesses within criteria set by others to a limited extent Advanced Level Able …
Enquiring Minds: strategies for promoting (better) research, autonomy and deployment of skills at level 3
skills, and in ways that promote genuine autonomy and meet the full range of expectations of students who are about to graduate, including the need for graduates to be ‘information literate’ effective assessment (formative and formal) of research skills, and across…
A few of my favourite things: three rules of thumb for module design informed by self-determination theory
three needs identified by SDT are: Autonomy – enhanced by allowing choice. Thus, we were alert to the possibility of freedom of choice – especially in areas that the institution considers valuable such as assessment practice and the determination of appropriate subj…
Transition management in a large law school: a module-based solution
In their paper John Hodgson and Jo Boylan-Kemp (Nottingham Trent University) presented the new approach to transition management adopted at Nottingham Law School. John and Jo’s slides are embedded below. Transition to higher education is a current ‘hot’ …
Resources
18(2) 87 Boud D (1988) Developing student autonomy in learning (London: Kogan Page) Kolb D (1984) Experiential learning: experience as the source of learning and development (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall) Maughan C (1996) ‘Learning how to learn: the skills dev…
Should I choose live client work or simulation?
exist in simulation too. Learner Autonomy/tutor Control In any kind of clinical work (as with any other learning environment) you need to consider how you balance learner autonomy (for example, opportunities for active and discovery-based learning) with tutor control…
Research on a prescribed case study module
independently with a high degree of learner autonomy. In the final phase of the project students are required to work collaboratively as a team to devise a strategy for disseminating some or all of their research output during the module in a format appropriate for a non-acade…
Keynote speakers at 2007 Conference
need for a negotiated balance between the autonomy of institutions and public accountability lies at the heart of the academic regulation of higher education. The development of the HERRG agenda (Higher Education Regulation Review Group) and recent developments in quality assura…
General transferable skills: outcome statements
cover: communication problem solving autonomy and personal skills teamwork information technology numeracy intellectual skills They suggest appropriate outcomes for achievement by students in higher education, together with illustrations of the kinds of ac…
Chair's report: Maureen Spencer
on Critical Legal Thinking. Focussing on autonomy, competence and relatedness in this module had hugely beneficial effects on student learning overall. It was also a joy to teach. …
Teaching business students law by virtual means
use of video lectures increased learner autonomy, encouraging students to take ownership of the learning experience and to learn at a comfortable speed. The embedded markers within the course, requiring the students to have acquired a certain level of knowledge for contact sessi…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2010: Perspectives on progress
facing a significant challenge to their autonomy as government seeks to shape higher education for economic ends, and urged participants to recognise the need to articulate and defend what universities are for in the face of the fracturing effects of the ‘market’. In Aar…
Using narrative and clinical approaches to teach ethics
legal adviser-client relationship) issues of autonomy and of ‘lawyer control’ or ‘client control’ arise. (The large literature on autonomy issues in lawyer-client relationships includes classic works such as Luban 1981, Pepper 1986 and Luban 1986, and emp…
Graduate standards in law
and learning to learn (here subsumed under autonomy) should be included as achievements of graduates from their programme of study. The report also envisages that students will leave university with a profile of their learning which goes beyond the conventional transcript …
Assessment and accountability
synthesis, critical judgement and evaluation autonomy and ability to learn Key skills: communication and literacy other key skills, including numeracy, IT and teamwork (Taken from the QAA’s Benchmark statement for law, 2000) This provides a much clearer, y…
Workbook integrating sustainability concepts in legal system and method
objectives of promoting greater learner autonomy and familiarising the cohort with a broader range of legal paradigms – two distinct needs at stage 1 of an undergraduate law degree. Mode of delivery The workbook makes up around one sixth (four weeks) of the teaching t…
Support and resources for developing reflective practice
consideration to the level of commitment to learner autonomy offering staff development and training in self and peer assessment activities ensuring there is willingness from a core group of staff to suspend scepticism and to approach self, peer and oral assessment with the …
General transferable skills
skills as communication, problem solving, autonomy, teamwork, information technology, numeracy, and general intellectual skills, and to be able to present their achievements to a variety of different kinds of potential employer. The key aims of the project were twofold: …
External examining: a view from the profession
the system (because that threatens ‘autonomy’) and to invest in it. This may be about to change – one can only hope! The law degree What is the profession’s view of the external examiner system? Of course we see it as important for the same reasons as…
What's reflection got to do with it?
celebrates diversity, flexibility and learner autonomy. A commitment to widening participation and a target figure of 50% participation by 2010 means that institutions are having to rethink curricula and consider how learning and teaching can be diversified to enable a wid…
A more hit than miss report?
be struck between desirable institutional autonomy, which supports diversity and creativity, and recognises the freedom of institutions to create a distinctive mission within the higher education marketplace, and the interests of the state and consumers in the quality of higher …
Resistance to teaching legal ethics
good’, and thus involve a loss of autonomy ‘legal ethics teaching won’t make lawyers good’ – law teachers do not have the capacity to effectively influence the future behaviour of tomorrow’s lawyers, since their behaviour will be determined …
Increasing potential for success in legal practice -some empirically derived insights from new lawyers
transition: Finding the right balance between autonomy and close mentoring and supervision, and in particular having exposure to ‘dramatic learning events’ Recognising that legal practice is not just a rational and rule-based activity, but one that involves persi…
A romantic revolution in legal education
of problem-solving in developing student autonomy, particularly within a group setting. As C.S. Lewis observed: The fellow pupil can help more than the master because he knows less. The difficulty we want him to explain is one he has recently met. The e…
Teaching legal ethics: references
W (2000) ‘Lawyer advice and client autonomy: Mrs Jones’ case’ in D Rhode (ed) Ethics in practice: lawyers’ roles, responsibilities and regulation Oxford: University Press Twining W ‘Pericles and the plumber’ (1967) Law Quarterly Review 83:39…
Graduate standards in law: a framework for describing graduateness in law
ways Personal and interpersonal skills autonomy: ability to take initiative and to be self-directed in undertaking tasks; ability to reflect on and learn from one’s own learning and that of others communication and literacy: ability to present knowledge in a way…
What is reflective practice?
synthesis, critical judgement and evaluation, autonomy and ability to learn. Meta-cognitive skills are important because they affect the ability to understand and make sense of experience. As such they are essential to the process of reflection and working in situations of…
PESCA: introducing personal development planning at Exeter
personal development, PESCA clearly relates to the need for autonomy outlined in the law benchmarks. The capacity to develop independent learning skills was also clear. At the end of each term students generated a report, which was e-mailed to their personal tutor, detailin…
General transferable skills: summary of key points
and to promote productive cooperation autonomy and personal skills: the ability to act independently, to deal with the unexpected, to reflect on one’s own actions and to accept and provide constructive feedback information technology: the ability to use IT tools and de…
Archived Events (2)
ELFA Annual Conference 2011
The next Annual Conference will take place on the 24th to 26th February 2011 in the University of Warsaw. The General Topic of the Conference will be: _"New Challenges for Law Faculties : Governance, Autonomy, Finance"_ …
Developing reflection and autonomy in law
This seminar, building on the work of UKCLE's "personal development planning working group":/resources/personal-development-planning/ukcle-personal-development-planning-working-group/, explored how reflective and critical skills are currently being developed and assessed in UK la...…
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