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Transforming The First Year of Law School with TheFirstYear Project: A Cognitive Approach to Blended Learning in Legal Education

Speaker(s): 
Aaron Dewald

In order to design effective videos for use in a blended classroom, we can turn to multimedia theory to inform our development.  Our approach has been validated by our successful flipping of the first year Contracts course. We're leveraging our educational design team to create TheFirstYear.org, an ambitious, open resource for faculty and students to blend, flip, and supplement their first year of law school.  By attending this presentation you will:

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Time slot: 
20 June 13:00 - 14:00
Room: 
WCC 2009

William Mitchell's Hybrid JD: How Different Points of View Contribute to Make a Strong Program

Speaker(s): 
Janelle Beitz, Chad Johnson

William Mitchell College of Law is preparing to launch an online/face-to-face hybrid ABA-accredited J.D. program – the first of its kind. This session will be a Rashomon approach to a case study describing how the Information Resources folks – the Library and IT - at Mitchell teamed with administration and faculty to create it.

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Time slot: 
20 June 13:00 - 14:00
Room: 
WCC 2004

Evidence-Based Legal Education: Technological Enhancements

Speaker(s): 
Jane Winn

This presentation will discuss strategies for evaluating the impact of new teaching methods such as "team-based learning" and how technology can remove barriers to adoption of more effective teaching methods in U.S. legal education.  For example, team-based learning requires the use of individual and team readiness assessment test, as well as peer evaluations.
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Time slot: 
19 June 16:00 - 17:00
Room: 
WCC 3018

Defining Instructional Technology: Moving from Hardware & Software to Pedagogy and Process

Speaker(s): 
Edward Finn III

How do professors match learning outcomes to technologies that not only deliver content, but enhance those outcomes?  Although Instructional Technology is often seen as a collection of software and hardware tools to deliver educational content and assess student progress, the term has been steadily evolving to include more than just delivery.  While the Learning Management Systems (LMS), authoring tools, hardware components, and presentation software are crucially important in the educational space, pedagogy and process in the use of these technologies are beginning to gain even m

Slides: 
application/pdf iconDefining Instructional Technology.pdf

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Time slot: 
21 June 09:00 - 10:00
Room: 
WCC 2009
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