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Category Archives: Law School
Law Graduates’ Use of Extra-Curricular Activities to Get Started in the Legal Professions
By Andrew Gilbert and Jessica Giles This blog arises out of our SCiLAB-funded project, ‘An Exploration of the Use of Extra-Curricular Activities by Law Students and Alumni’, which we carried out during 2020-21. The project aimed to explore Open University … Continue reading
Law Students and Extra-Curricular Activities in a Time of Pandemic
By Andrew Gilbert and Jessica Giles This blog arises out of our SCiLAB-funded project, ‘An Exploration of the Use of Extra-Curricular Activities by Law Students and Alumni’, which we carried out during 2020-21. The project aimed to explore Open University (OU) … Continue reading
Posted in feelings, General, Law School, motivation, onlinestudent, Open University, SCiLAB, students, Uncategorised
Tagged Covid19, employability, law extra-curricular activities, pandemic
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Professor Suzanne Rab Takes a Critical Look at Critical Thinking
By Professor Suzanne Rab Critical thinking is a vital skill at university, and in life. Despite its frequent endorsement in education, there is no clear consensus about what it means in practice. Rather like the elusive search for a definition of … Continue reading
Supporting Tutors in Adobe Connect
By Carol Edwards & Andrew Maxfield In this blog we plan to share how we supported our new and less experienced tutors to deliver successful online tutorials during the Covid pandemic. As the leading provider of distance online learning, it … Continue reading
Supporting care experienced students: Piloting a project in the Faculty of Business and Law
By Grace Allen, Catherine Comfort, Daniel Coxon, Sarah Henderson, Christine Mera & Joanna Mirek-Tooth Higher Education (HE) is a vast and different world to navigate for any new student wishing to access it. For a student who is a care … Continue reading
Developing an integrated model of support for full-time students in a part-time world – a pilot
By Charlotte Luckhurst and Liz Hardie Background Most students studying law at The Open University study 60 credits a year (equivalent to part-time study). However, the numbers of students choosing to study law at full-time intensity (120 credits a year) … Continue reading
Continuing our experiences of online mentoring
By Carol Edwards, Lorraine Gregory, Liz Hardie and Louise Taylor We previously posted a blog in October 2020 entitled ‘Setting up a Pilot Mentoring Programme on W101 – An Introduction to Law’ (Edwards, Hardie and Gregory, 2020). This explained our … Continue reading
Challenging the norm in academic recruitment
By Grace Allen, Joanna Mirek-Tooth, Christine Mera & Charlotte Luckhurst There is growing recognition across the higher education sector that an institution’s leadership should be representative of wider society. As institutions strive to ensure diversity is championed and that diverse viewpoints are … Continue reading
Posted in Business School, e-teaching, feelings, General, HE, Law School, onlineteaching, Open University, SCiLAB, teachingidentity, Uncategorised
Tagged Awarding gap, Diversity, Ethnicity, Inclusion, Recruitment, Teaching
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A Virtual Reality Courtroom Project
By Dr Clare Jones & Francine Ryan Exciting new project The Open University Law School’s, Open Justice Centre, is embarking on an exciting new project which brings together technology and law to enable immersive and active learning to take place … Continue reading
Posted in covid19, e-learning, e-teaching, General, HE, Law School, online learning resources, Online teaching, onlinestudent, onlineteacher, onlineteaching, Open Justice, Open University, SCiLAB, Uncategorised
Tagged experiential learning, teaching innovation, virtual courts, virtual reality, virtual reality courtroom, virtual worlds, VR
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How do I solve the world’s problems from my desk?
By Jessica Giles In the face of some of the world’s seemingly intractable global problems, it can be easy to feel disempowered and disengaged. Even identifying or prioritising a particular global crisis to engage with can be a challenge. We … Continue reading
Posted in General, HE, Law School, Open University, research, SCiLAB, Uncategorised
Tagged e-learning, highered, highereducation, interdisciplinarity, Jessica Giles, law
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