Technological and Practical Insights for Delivering a Hybrid Legal Research Certificate Program to Students

In this highly competitive legal job market and era of law school reform, law schools and law libraries must develop new programs to create practice -ready graduates. Some law libraries are now offering non-credit certificate programs to address this need. At the University of Denver, we developed a Certificate Program in Legal Research in the spring of 2013. The Certificate program is offered in a traditional classroom setting for our day students and as an online program for our evening students.
The panelists will discuss the challenges of designing and implementing the new hybrid program from scratch.  The session will examine the technologies used in the development and deployment of the program including:  1) a database for class registrations; 2) the online course management system; 3) video recording software; and 4) interactive tutorials software.
Use this session to strategize how to develop and implement similar legal research instruction programs at your institution.