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The workshop was structured as a series of informal seminars, each with a moderator, drawn from the group, who set the stage for the discussion. All participants represented law schools, law firms or related institutions that had conducted or participated in distance learning activities or had serious plans for doing so.
All links below provide access to a streaming audio recording of the session -- accompanied by presentation materials and handouts where available.
Monday, June 25: Bringing the technology to the pedagogy |
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AM |
Opening remarks; getting acquainted. |
Moderator: P. Martin | |
Session 2 | Developing an inventory
and vocabulary of course components and activities useful in analyzing
distance learning options - Discussion (part 1) (0:05) - Discussion (part 2) (0:45) |
Moderator: P. Martin | |
PM |
Session 3 |
Going beyond the components - elements or aims that
must considered in overall course design and delivery |
Moderator: C. Person |
Session 4 |
Identifying new pedagogical strategies enabled by technology
and developing the terminology to discuss alternative structures and
methods of distance learning |
Moderator: M. Norwood | |
Tuesday, June 26: Alternative on-line approaches to the principal course components or activities |
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AM |
Session
1
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Presentation:
- Principal discussion (0:55) |
Moderator: B. Vaaler |
Session
2
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Class discussion |
Moderator: T. Player | |
PM |
Session
3
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Feedback and evaluation
- Full discussion (0:53) |
Moderator: D. Quentel |
Session
4
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Other |
Moderator: R. Seibel | |
Wednesday June 27: Choices, challenges, and criteria |
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AM |
Session
1
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Criteria - e.g., cost, ease of building and subsequent
updating and maintenance, student engagement |
Moderator: J. Farago |
Session
2
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Critical choices (e.g., synchronous versus asynchronous,
video versus audio, on-line versus on disc, digital or print course
readings) |
Moderator: P. Joseph | |
PM |
Session 3 | Human and institutional
resource considerations - Full discussion (0:55) |
Moderator: J. Friedman |
Thursday June 28: Administration systems and data issues |
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AM |
Session
1
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Tracking student enrollment, contact information, and
participation |
Moderator: T. Bruce |
Session
2
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Capture and analysis of student performance on quizzes
or exercises |
Moderator: C. Person | |
PM |
Session
3
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Collecting, organizing, marking, and returning submitted
student writing or other work product |
Moderator: K. Kirwin |
Session
4
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Other |
Moderator: M. McDiarmid | |
Friday June 29: Buy, bundle or build |
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AM |
Session
1
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Serving multi-media |
Moderator: T. Bruce |
Course environments - Blackboard, Webct, TWEN, LEXIS's
Virtual Classroom - versus assembling components Discussion or conference
environments - WebBoard, WebCrossing et al; exercise builders - CALI
author, Coursebuilder et al; and other important components or tools
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Moderators: S. Willbanks & E. Masters | ||
Session 3 | Conference wrapup | Moderator: P. Martin |