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Teaching LRW Online

David Thomson

snipURL.com/LWI2008

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Legal/Judicial Process and Knowledge ManagementI also serve on the University Distance Learning Council

Have taught two different online courses in last four years

At three different programs, both adjunct and full-timeAt two different schools

This will be my thirteenth year teaching LRW

LP Professor and DirectorLawyering Process Program, University of Denver

David Thomson

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Definition

Distance education is a method of teaching Distance education is a method of teaching where the student and instructor are separated where the student and instructor are separated by time or space, or both.by time or space, or both.

For the purposes of the Distance Learning Council, distance learning is further defined as a formal educational process in which more than half (51%) of the contact hours more than half (51%) of the contact hours occur when student and instructor are not in occur when student and instructor are not in the same placethe same place. Instruction may be synchronous or asynchronous. Distance learning may employ any combination of correspondence study, audio, video, or computer and other online technologies.

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Millennials

Co-Creation

Media Rich

Tech is not separate

E-mail is for old people

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ABA Accreditation:

306 (d): A law school shall not grant a student more than four credit hours in any term, nor more than a total of 12 credit hours, toward the J.D. degree for courses qualifying under this Standard.

306 (e): No student shall enroll in courses qualifying for credit under this Standard until that student has completed instruction equivalent to 28 credit hours toward the J.D. degree.

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Growth of Online Learning in College

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Fall of 2002: 1.6 Million students

Fall of 2006: 3.2 Million students

These numbers have increased between 24 and 52 percent in the last year (depending on the college)

By next year, nearly 5 Million college students will have taken a course online

Convergence: Tech + Ed + Students

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Thank youto ALWD

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Outline

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Group Work

Face to Face

Conferencing and Feedback

Worries about this

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Match the two

Think in terms of Modules,each with a goal

Learn the Technology

Course Design

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Quick Response

Students must understand the online environment

Bridge the Gap

Requirements for Online Learning

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Online Text

Courseware sites with Blogs,Forums and Wikis

Live Classroom

Available Technology

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ICW Online

Library visit, exercises

Online Tutorials

Research Instruction

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That it works

That they like the convenience

That they feel closer to their online instructors

Students say...

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More Information

Web page for this presentation:

snipURL.com/LWI2008

An article I have written: SSRN

My Syllabus and Course Policies

Two Rubrics for evaluation

ABA Accreditation Std. 306

NYTimes Article

Other links

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Q & A

Teaching LRW Online

David Thomson

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