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Creative critical learning: Act 2
Grier Palmer (University of Warwick) presented an update on an attempt to create a new pedagogic culture for undergraduates using non-conventional spaces and performance inputs from theatre. Grier’s...
Developing an interactive multimedia guide to enhance legal research skills
Claire Tylee, University of the West of England Presentation at UKCLE seminar on teaching and learning for legal skills trainers, 16 February 2005 Claire’s session described the development of an...
Developing critical thinking: student perspectives
Angus Nurse (University of Lincoln) presented interim findings from a research project looking at the teaching and learning of analytical thinking and problem solving skills among undergraduate law...
Developing research skills
In her paper Caroline Coles (De Montfort University) presented an analysis of the need for advanced research skills and led a discussion on tools and techniques to encourage critical thinking....
Developing students’ critical thinking skills through peer assessment and information literacy
Richard Owen (University of Glamorgan) looked at an attempt to develop students’ critical thinking through information literacy and the use of asynchronous methods of peer assessment to develop...
Developing the student learning environment at City University
Emily Allbon, City University Presentation at UKCLE seminar on teaching and learning for legal skills trainers, 16 February 2005 This session looked at how Emily has developed tools in order to...
Doing diagnostics: accounting for progress in student communications and advocacy
Bonnie McAlister (Elon University, USA) considered the speaking characteristics of effective advocates and demonstrated a technique for use in assessing oral communication. An essential skill of all...
Enquiring Minds: strategies for promoting (better) research, autonomy and deployment of skills at level 3
In their paper Keith Puttick, Rhonda Hammond-Sharlot and Janet Spence (Staffordshire University) described their work on Enquiring Minds, a two year project evaluating project and other activity-...
General transferable skills: University of Birmingham
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic stage) Many skills necessary to proceed through the degree are beneficial for many...
General transferable skills: a survey of practice in law schools
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report 1998) Overview A survey was undertaken of providers of undergraduate and LPC/CPE courses in autumn 1996. The purpose of the survey...
General transferable skills: assessment models
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Passport scheme Personal transferable skills certificate Free-standing compulsory skills module within the law degree...
General transferable skills: Aston University
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The courses offered are a BSc Law with Legal Practice Management and a BSc Managerial and...
General transferable skills: autonomy and personal skills
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Competence Statement A student who is self reliant and is able to: deal with the unexpected match individual...
General transferable skills: Bournemouth University
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group In developing the legal skills programme within the LLB (Hons) Business Law degree it is...
General transferable skills: City Law School
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic) The main course offered by the City Law School is the Bar Vocational Course (BVC)....
General transferable skills: College of Law, York
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The principal target group is the Legal Practice Course (LPC) student group (postgraduate)....
General transferable skills: communication
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Competence Statement A student is able to: present written and oral arguments in a clear and cogent manner respond...
General transferable skills: context
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) The context within which discussion of general transferable skills occurs is threefold; the ideals of liberal education,...
General transferable skills: De Montfort University
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic: LLB and BA Honours) There is an emphasis on general preparation throughout the...
General transferable skills: definition
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) The project proposes to define general transferable skills as abilities not confined to the learning or application of a...
General transferable skills: information technology
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Competence statement A student is able to: make use of IT tools and develop that use by integrating it into their...
General transferable skills: intellectual skills
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Competence Statement A student is able to: analyse think critically evaluate synthesise information...
General transferable skills: Lancaster University
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic) Students are encouraged to think about the skills that they have and the extent to...
General transferable skills: learning methods and forms of accreditation
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Learning methods FLIAs has been said, the support given to students in acquiring general transferable skills requires...
General transferable skills: Leeds Metropolitan University
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The school of law provides three relevant courses; the LLB, the Postgraduate Diploma in Law (...
General transferable skills: Nottingham Trent University
Strategy and target group Skills are seen as transferable and are presented as such. Skills training is developed throughout the three year degree. Specific skills module or integration of skills?...
General transferable skills: numeracy
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Competence Statement A student is able to: make use of numerical and statistical information as part of an argument...
General transferable skills: outcome statements
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) The purpose of the seven outcome statements is to identify the principal general transferable skills which are developed in...
General transferable skills: problem solving
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Competence Statement A student is able to: identify issues, assimilating, evaluating, and analysing information as...
General transferable skills: project participants
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Core group John Bell, University of Leeds Joy Hillyer, College of Law Jennifer Johnstone (Project Assistant), University...
General transferable skills: project rationale
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Significant changes are occuring both in the market for legal services and the concept of a career in law. Law schools are...
General transferable skills: reactions of recent graduates
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Having drawn up a list of general transferable skills the project sought to identify the importance for recent graduates,...
General transferable skills: selected bibliography
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) ACLEC (Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct) (1996) First report on legal education...
General transferable skills: Southampton Institute
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic) The approach is integrative, in that skills should not be divorced from teaching of...
General transferable skills: Staffordshire University
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group Undergraduate. Specific skills module or integration of skills? Both integrated and specific. LLB...
General transferable skills: student perceptions
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) The project wanted to test the notions of general transferable skills developed in consultation with academic staff against...
General transferable skills: summary of key points
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) The report identifies the following as general transferable skills: communication: the ability to present an communicate...
General transferable skills: teaching skills
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Law schools have been concerned about liberal education as well as vocational education for a long time. It is fair to say...
General transferable skills: teamwork
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Competence Statement A student is able to: establish working relations with others, defining, sharing and...
General transferable skills: University of Bristol
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Skills that students learn are generic and whilst learned in a legal context are applicable to other disciplines. The...
General transferable skills: University of Essex
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group Developing transferable skills provides students with deeper understanding of substantive law and...
General transferable skills: University of Exeter
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic) Throughout skills teaching it is emphasised that the general vocational skills can...
General transferable skills: University of Huddersfield
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (LLB year 1) The importance of a skills course for all students embarking on the first year of...
General transferable skills: University of Leeds
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The department has adopted a statement of the competences of a law student, which identifies a...
General transferable skills: University of Liverpool
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group Have in the past been concerned mainly with legal and IT skills, but are currently introducing a...
General transferable skills: University of Manchester
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Specific skills module or integration of skills? Some skills taught in legal methods course but most are integrated....
General transferable skills: University of Newcastle
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The degree programme handbook specifically includes as one of the aims and objectives of the...
General transferable skills: University of Nottingham
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group (academic) The department views its primary purpose as being to educate students and to assist...
General transferable skills: University of Reading
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group The approach is based on students participating through active learning rather than teaching. The...
General transferable skills: University of Southampton
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group Thought very carefully in terms of the learning objectives and skills including the extent to...
General transferable skills: University of the West of England
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) Strategy and target group Looking to co-ordinate a matrix approach to skills with each subject being allocated or taking...
Integrating information literacy into an undergraduate law course
Cathie Jackson, Cardiff University Presentation at UKCLE seminar on teaching and learning for legal skills trainers, 16 February 2005 Information literacy is the ability to recognise when information...
Introducing Intute: Law
Intute was launched in July 2006 as the new face of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). For SOSIG Law, the UK’s dedicated Internet gateway for law, this meant a relaunch as Intute: Law with a new...
Law school dreams: imagining the shape of law schools
Roger Burridge (University of Warwick), Imelda Maher and John O’Dowd (University College Dublin) led an interactive session devoted to thinking about the physical shape of law schools. The law...
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
Reports and links to papers on community at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: Lifelong learning: engaging students and teachers in legal education – Claire Macken (Deakin University,...
Lessons learnt from the Legal Research Skills Programme
Sandra Meredith, University of Oxford Presentation at UKCLE seminar on teaching and learning for legal skills trainers, 16 February 2005 Sandra’s session described her research into how students...
Lessons learnt from the Legal Research Skills Programme
Sandra Meredith, University of Oxford Presentation at UKCLE seminar on teaching and learning for legal skills trainers, 16 February 2005 Sandra’s session described her research into how students...
Look it up before you leap: guiding students across the academic-vocational legal resources divide
Marcus Soanes (City University) explored the skills and emotional vocabulary students need to progress from the undergraduate study of the law to issue focused engagement with legal resources in...
Open educational resources: why they matter
Paul Maharg (then University of Strathclyde) led a workshop describing and defining global initiatives to develop open educational resources (OER) and introducing Simshare, the UKCLE project...
Postgraduate to professional: creativity and opinion writing skills
In her paper presented at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007 Ros Carne, Opinion Writing Co-ordinator at City Law School, described the grid used to help students on the Bar Vocational Course...
Research on a prescribed case study module
In 2005 Birmingham Law School launched a new undergraduate module on research on a prescribed case study. The module, a 30 credit option at level 3, incorporates: a multifaceted case study of a...
Research-based learning at Warwick
As a research-led university Warwick aims to maximise the benefits to both staff and students of potential links between teaching and research. The university’s learning and teaching strategy...
Supporting student writers in the university of the 21st century
Opening address by Mary Lea from the UKCLE seminar on legal literacy held on 10 March 2005. Mary is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University. She has...
Using podcasts to develop students' referencing skills using OSCOLA
Penny English (Anglia Ruskin University) presented a poster on using podcasts to develop students’ referencing skills. This poster described one project in a wider initiative developing a series of...
VLEs and their role in legal education support: a UK overview
Marianne Barber, College of Law Presentation at UKCLE seminar on teaching and learning for legal skills trainers, 16 February 2005 This session provided an overview of the possible and the desirable...
Web 2.0 and unconventional sources: paradigm shift for law student essays?
In his paper Michael Bromby (Glasgow Caledonian University) explored the use of Web 2.0 sources by law students in their essays. Michael’s slides are embedded below. Whilst there is an acknowledged...
Why should law schools focus on general transferable skills?
(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998) What is our objective? Discussions in our core group and in the workshops suggests three possible objectives for the...
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