Active Learning in the Law School Classroom: Tips and Technology to Help Create and Sustain It

From our own life experiences, we know that hands-on learning is best. We can listen to someone explain to us how to hit a backhand, or use a function in Word or on our computer, or bake a cake, but it isn't until we try it ourselves do we really understand how it is done and do we learn. Law is no exception. 
 
This presentation will discuss strategies on how to bring hands-on, active learning to the law school classroom so that your students are more engaged and responsible for their learning than in a traditional lecture classroom. Technology plays a vital role in active learning, and incorporating videos to create flipped classrooms and creating online classes with programs such as Versal will be discussed. Tips for successfully creating online videos and presentations for a flipped classroom will be shared. 
 
Keeping your students engaged in an active classroom means developing challenging classroom exercises that allow students to apply what they have learned before coming to class in the flipped or online classroom. Examples of exercises that have been successfully used in a law school classroom will be presented, as well as advice for how to develop your own. The presentation will also discuss some of the challenges inherent in an active, experiential learning environment and share advice on how to overcome them. 

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