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Collaboration: The Next/Previous Big/Small (No)Thing
When I first came to SCU Law about 3.5 years ago, I would have claimed that collaboration and team-based learning was utterly and perhaps forever contrary to the instruction of law. Today, while I certainly see many classes including team-based work in the curriculum and some faculty quite aggressively challenging traditional methods of instruction, I…
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Please take the 2011 Law School Educational Technologist Survey
We have created a survey to update the data gathered in our law school educational technology survey from 2009. The survey is at: http://bit.ly/2011lsedtsurv. We are looking for information about current job descriptions and responsibilities of law school educational technologists. This survey will take about 20-30 minutes to complete. It should be answered by the…
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Trends & Challenges in Educational Technology
There is essentially one reason why I was so excited to attend EDUCAUSE’s Midwest Regional Conference in March: the Keynote Speaker, Dr. Michael Wesch. With the beauty of YouTube and TED talks, I can share the keynote presentation with you, albeit in a shorter form. TEDxKC Michael Wesch From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-Able Wesch focuses on…
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My IT, Your IT, Everyone’s got IT
Educational and Instructional Technology has always fallen in between faculty and IT groups. It is explicitly related to improving pedagogy, conducted by the faculty, yet is reliant on a responsive IT department for implementation. If the implementation is flawed in some way, then assessment becomes impossible. The intersection and interaction between Ed Tech and IT…
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Introducing the Law School Educational Technology Blog
As instructional technology takes on a greater role in legal education, more law schools are using educational technology experts to support the instructional needs of their faculties. At the 2010 CALI Conference, Barbara Glennan and I hosted an educational technology meeting which was attended by over 50 people. It was clear that there was a…
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Critical Commons
In a recent EDUCAUSE LIVE! webinar entitled “The Future of Fair Use” hosted by Steven Anderson, Assistant Professor of Interactive Media at USC and author of technohistory blog, Anderson highlighted Critical Commons, a project he started to fill a void he saw in the open and free use of media arena. As described on its…
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