teaching

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are gaining in popularity.  Individuals around the world are using these courses to further their knowledge about a variety of topics, including law. Librarians, as traditional information providers, instructors, and copyright experts, are uniquely qualified to participate in MOOCs.  Our three panelists will discuss their experiences, both as teaching support and MOOC professors. Afterwards, participants will break out into groups to discuss the concept of MOOCs and the ways to design an engaging MOOC for an international audience.  Ideas generated from the groups will be shared with the entire audience.

If you look at the demographics of law faculty and law students, there is a divide.  Law faculty are digital immgrants (people who had to learn to use technology) while many if not most law students are now digital natives (people who have always had it). I propose a session that focuses on some of the difference between digital immigrants and digital natives, and some of the issues that may arise when digital immigrants teach digital natives the skills necessary to practice law (which is still predominantly populated by digital immigrants).