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Law

Legal education

2014

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The Birth Of A New Teaching Idea.Pdf, Jalae Ulicki Dec 2013

The Birth Of A New Teaching Idea.Pdf, Jalae Ulicki

Jalae Ulicki

As we know, 65% of the population is visually dominated, and therefore I presume that this statistic applies to most of my class as well. The visual "magnet" to which my students are attracted in the classroom is my screen. So, what could I do with that "magnet" that would hold their attention, be collaborative, and build upon their ability
to retain what they saw in the "magnet" and use that retained information to enhance their performance in law school and in their future practice?

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Crowdsourced Coursebooks, Stephen E. Henderson, Joseph T. Thai Dec 2013

Crowdsourced Coursebooks, Stephen E. Henderson, Joseph T. Thai

Stephen E Henderson

Given increasing criticism and dropping admissions, American legal education is likely to change, hopefully reversing the unsustainable trend of increasing expense without increasing value. Much debate focuses on restructuring the curriculum to make it more “practical” and skills-infused; here we instead propose a rethinking of the basic unit of law teaching, the casebook. Casebook authors and publishers are cautiously venturing into electronic editions, but they fail to harness the power of social learning to make textbooks dramatically smarter as well as cheaper. Working with a technology startup, we are developing an online platform that reinvents both authorship and learning. The …

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