Category: Posts
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Improving Presentations (or videos, or other multimedia) with Learning Science
Note: This blog post was derived from a presentation I gave at the New York Law School. I was invited by Doni Gewirtzman and Kris Franklin to speak about the impact of learning science on the creation of presentations. I realized there are many nuances to the use of presentations. Some lecture with them, some…
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The Working Group on Distance Learning in Legal Education Fall Meeting
On September 13, I attended the Working Group on Distance Learning in Legal Education fall meeting that was held in the North Carolina Central University Law School. Although the conference was small, it was highly informative. I learned a great deal about the current state of technology, regulations, pedagogy, and best practices for distance learning for law…
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Dynamic Learning Environment (Jason Fiske, Guest Blogger)
Thank you for bearing with me for the last couple of posts! I have previously discussed the present – how we organize our courses – now I shift to the future. As the Program Director of Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Online Graduate Program I am constantly looking for ways to improve information delivery to…
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De-Aggregation Method (Jason Fiske, Guest Blogger)
Since you are now reading this I can assume that either I did not completely bore you out of your mind in my first blog, or you are ignorant to my first blog post and I now have a new opportunity to bore you. Can’t wait! I thought I would now spend one blog talking…
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About Me
Hello, my name is Will Monroe, and I am the Head of Instructional Technology at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. I have not written for a blog before and I am very excited to have been asked to do so here during the month of May.…
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Infographics in Legal Education
Have you noticed that data use and distribution has hit the mainstream lately? Data visualization is becoming a popular field of study. Empirical research is gaining greater ground in fields not usually associated with high levels of data analysis, such as law. 2013 has even been declared the International Year of Statistics. Perhaps more so…
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Changing of the Guard
Hello everyone! My name is Ashley Ahlbrand, and I’ll be the resident blogger this month! In this first post, I’ll just introduce myself. I am the Educational Technology Librarian at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. I began last July, so I’m rounding out my first year. This is a new position at our library,…
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Blending the First-Year Legal Classroom
Introduction to our Contracts Pilot With all the talk about blended learning, flipped classrooms, and the like, we wanted to visualize what that might look like in the legal classroom, but first lets take a peek at a situation that could be a catalyst for blending a legal classroom. The first-year courses are widely taught…
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The Rise, Fall, and Re-creation of the Counter-terrorism Simulation (Part 1)
Sometimes, we get lost in the excitement of technologies. When you’re a hammer, all you see is nails, right?. It’s like that for us. Every problem or situation we see can be “improved” with technology. Last year at CALI, I talked a little about this… the “shiny object syndrome” we often develop… looking for places…
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MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs
Talk about an acronym that’s fun to say! MOOCs are a popular term in educations these days. A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. I first learned about MOOCs through the eduMOOC last year so I could learn more about online learning. Since then, MOOCs have been featured in national news sources and discussed at…
