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SIMPLE: learning through simulations
(embedded below). Game-based learning and simulations are powerful modes of learning, used by industries as diverse as aviation and health sciences. While there are many generic VLEs available to further and higher education, there is no widely available open source Web-based …
Simshare workshops
held a number of workshops to explore using simulations in teaching and learning, and using open educational resources. Each workshop had a host of information about simulation learning. At the workshops participants: Learnt about OER and how to be a part of it. Had access t…
It's SIMPLE: the SIMulated Professional Learning Environment
SIMPLE project is an excellent example of simulations being used for educational purposes. SIMPLE was initially designed to help students learn how to undertake practical legal transactions, such as raising or defending a civil court action, carrying out a personal injury nego…
Using SIMPLE at the University of Stirling School of Law
k.e.goodall@stir.ac.uk. Stirling used SIMPLE for two simulations in a module taken by 63 first and second year undergraduate students during 2007-08. The simulations were managed by a senior lecturer, who devised and built them and then ran them with a postgraduate student. Th…
Using SIMPLE at the University of Warwick School of Law
the roles of clients and witnesses in the simulations of other firms – a key difference from the other SIMPLE case studies. After completing the online transactions the students were required to prepare for and take part in a mock trial. The simulation was run by two pro…
SIMPLE: innovative learning across the professions
town where students engage in authentic simulations of professional transactions. Learners are sited in a professional context, where their work is, as it will be in the workplace, distributed between tools, colleagues, resources, anticipated and unanticipated problems, and indi…
Call for simulation resources
we’re keen to host all types, all sizes of simulations. Our team will work with you to repurpose your resources as open educational content and to ensure your contribution is recognised. The resources will be stored in a repository with an interface allowing users to sea…
Open educational resources in simulation learning
required by staff to create and resource simulations. Simshare aimed to resolve this by: repurposing simulation resources created by the SIMPLE project as open educational resources working with colleagues in other Academy subject centres, for example with the BMAF Networ…
Using SIMPLE at Glasgow Graduate School of Law
up the estate of a deceased client. The simulations are played out through the virtual town of Ardcalloch where the clients live and the scenarios are based. The pedagogical approach is constructivist in nature, situating learning tasks as far as possible within an authentic…
Supporting the use of the SIMPLE application
disruptive. In order to create effective simulations academic staff need support and practice in designing innovative scenarios, building resources for simulation and re-thinking assessment practices. In October 2008 UKCLE was awarded funding from the JISC/Academy Collaboratio…
Open educational resources: why they matter
required by staff to create and resource simulations. Building on the success of the SIMPLE project, and going beyond it, this project will perform a vital role in the higher education community by proving that an Academy subject centre can help its community to develop and shar…
Using SIMPLE at the University of Glamorgan law school
with little experience of e-learning or simulations. Two other lecturers took on roles within the simulation and were responsible for a number of pairs of firms each. Building the simulation The creation of the concept diagrams to support the building of the simulation (know…
Building a simulation: the narrative event diagram
During the software specification for the SIMPLE learning environment it became clear that for many people involved there was a gap between the ability to conceptualise the scenarios making up a simulation and the capacity to reproduce those scenarios as a formal design. The nar…
Teaching in virtual worlds
Thinking about getting into Second Life? Here Mark Childs (Coventry University) provides an introduction to the issues raised in teaching in virtual worlds. Mark (SL Gann McGann) is currently undertaking a PhD into learners’ experiences in mediated environments – see…
Open educational resources (OER)
Open educational resources can be defined as teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational res…
Simshare methodology and progress
The project will develop an infrastructure to support the creation and release of simulation OER by: Collating and disseminating existing simulation resources repurposed as open educational content. Creating guidelines for the future publication of simulation projects. …
Are we using technology for technology's sake? An evaluation of a simulated employment exercise
In their paper Amy Musgrove and Vicky Thirlaway (Leeds Metropolitan University) considered a pilot study evaluating the use of a virtual learning environment to foster employability and problem solving skills via a simulated employment exercise in criminal law. Download Amy…
Moving from lectures to transactional learning: simulating probate
Tom Serby (Anglia Ruskin University) presented a poster on the introduction of a simulated transactional learning environment on the Legal Practice Course (LPC). Download Tom’s poster (PowerPoint file, 1.84 MB) at the bottom of the page. This poster describes a…
Second guessing: is there a context for Second Life in legal education?
In their paper Michael Bromby and Martin Jones (Glasgow Caledonian University) invited participants to speculate on the potential for Second Life in law, reporting on their experiences with students on a legal IT module. The session was blogged on Zeugma, and Michael and Ma…
Open Educational Resources in the disciplines: a joint conference
the concept of open field and closed field simulations and discussed the consequences of taking one or other approach in the design of the simulation itself. Download the handout from the workshop. Simulations from the University of Glamorgan – how we made use of OER resou…
Using SIMPLE at the University of the West of England Department of Law
law programme. They had run paper-based simulations for some years, but beyond using a VLE for uploading course materials had not used e-learning before. The simulation, to be run by a team of two tutors with the assistance of the deputy manager of UWE’s e-learning develop…
What activities are suitable for small group work?
essays or how to avoid plagiarism games and simulations, role play spontaneous activities such as brainstorming or small group discussion within a seminar; buzz groups are useful short exercises to break up the monotony of one way communication (such as a lecture) and make s…
The Simshare team
project through to April 2010. She has used simulations and role play for her own learning in a variety of contexts and brings experience of using the SIMPLE and Cyberdam platforms, as well as paper-based role plays. Sheila tested an international simulation project for Glasgo…
Digital games and learning: theoria, cultura, praxis
researchers investigating how games and simulations can be effectively applied in everyday learning contexts. While research is being undertaken to investigate this relationship, such exploratory work suffers from being fragmented, coming as it does from separate disciplinary ap…
Making choices about lawyers' ethics: integrating an ethical dimension into a simulation
making a choice with an ethical dimension. Simulations are sometimes regarded as a less than satisfactory form of clinic, perceived as a distraction from working on live cases for the benefit of the community and as less engaging and realistic. We do not seek to deny the benefit…
What about supervision?
enormous potential for supporting clinical simulations, where much of the casework component can be developed, stored and managed within the electronic environment (see for example Maharg & Paliwala, 2002). …
Clinical legal education and extracurricular law clinic
in-house clinics. Instead, many have opted for simulations and role plays, thus losing the benefits of engagement with actual clients, or for placements with advice agencies, thus raising problems of supervision and monitoring, and potential conflicts between the student’s…
The standardised client
shopper clients, etc), as well as skills-based simulations in other disciplines, such as social work, pharmacy, medical education. Brainstorm and seek potential collaborators for expanding the existing base of empirical research on actual lawyer-client communication, so that a…
Using e-learning in legal education
business students law by virtual means Using simulations in law Using e-portfolios in law Our e-learning seminar series held during 2007-08 produced a range of materials around the key themes of collaborative and distributive learning, e-assessment, mobile learning and s…
Socrates and Confucius: a long history (?) of information technology in legal education
e-casebooks Confucian – producing simulations, self discovery wikis and Web-based group work He then compared these two approaches to the more traditional western/European method of the instructional lecture, with its more conservative response to the technological a…
Archived Events (3)
SIMPLE project launch event
The "SIMPLE project":/projects/past-projects/tle/, jointly funded by JISC and UKCLE, developed an open source simulation environment for learning in law and other professions. This launch event reviewed the project and took a look forward to further use of the application by 'sec...…
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