Using e-learning in legal education

What’s new in e-learning

Forthcoming events

Evidence-based practice seminar series – events being held around the country by the Higher Education Academy

Resources and news

European Journal of Law and Technology – first issue now available
JILT – final special legal education edition with papers from UKCLE’s e-learning seminar series and BILETA 2009
new JISC e-learning publications on the needs of digital learners
visit Digital Directions, the UKCLE blog, for the latest news and comment

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UKCLE supports law teachers in their use of e-learning, aiming to encourage the application of pedagogically informed e-learning strategies via the provision of guidance notes and examples of good practice, the facilitation of discussion at events physical and virtual, and the promotion of research.

We work closely with BILETA, the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association, providing its secretariat. BILETA periodically undertakes research into ICT provision in law schools, and many conference papers from the annual BILETA conference cover e-learning issues.

Many law teachers are making use of technology to enhance their learning and teaching activities – key resources are listed below. Explore further via keyword – simply click ‘View Related Pages’ in the right hand menu on any page.

Guidance notes:

• Getting started with e-portfolios
• How to podcast
• Making VLEs more interesting
• Teaching in immersive virtual worlds
• Using e-assessment
• Wikis: a tool for distributive writing

Latest case studies:

• An exploratory study into the use of interactive technology to teach law
• Moodle: open source e-learning
• Second guessing: is there a context for Second Life in legal education?
• Teaching 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 simulation learning. Three papers from the series were published in the final edition of the Journal of Information, Law & Technology (JILT 2009 (3)).

Current UKCLE research into e-learning in law includes a project developing research-based learning and teaching approaches using technology on a Legal Methods module and the Simshare project developing open educational resources in simulation learning.

Enhancing learning through technology

The Higher Education Academy’s Enhancing Learning through Technology programme is working towards an approach using technology to enhance the student learning experience. A series of evidence-based practice seminars are being held around the country during 2010 focussing on:

• assessment and feedback
• employability and employee learning
• professional learning and teaching practice

At the end of 2009, the Higher Education Academy published a book Transforming higher education through technology enhanced learning, which is available to download as a PDF from their website.

A number of resources have been produced in conjunction with JISC:

• guides to resources under four key themes – e-assessment, supporting staff, supporting students and work related learning
• a set of online guides and tutorials – see in particular Teaching inclusively using technology
• two search services – the JISC search tool (based on Google) and the Academy search tool (a managed search service), both covering a range of websites

Other resources include eight e-learning starter guides, produced by the LTSN Generic Centre and the Association for Learning Technology in 2002-03.

Last Modified: 30 June 2010