Liz Hardie, Teaching Director at the Open University Law School writes about anniversaries and the Open Justice team chapter that was published last week in ‘Law in Motion: 50 Years of Legal Change’
At the start of this advent blog, here is a quick quiz to find out how much you know about Christmas.
Jill St George gained her LLB, LLM and PgDip BVC before embarking on an academic career at the University of Aberystwyth in 2009. Having lived in Bahrain and Barbados from 2011, Jill returned to England and started a PhD at the University of Sussex, which is currently in the “writing up” stage. Jill has recently joined the OU Law School as a lecturer.
With an admittedly fairly tenuous link, I introduce you to my research area within the theme of Christmas!
Dr Clare Jones Senior Law Lecturer at the Open University writes about the benefits of using virtual worlds in education.
Online learning is the future of education, (Designing digitally, 2020). Here at the Open University this is what we have been doing since our inception in 1969, but technology is allowing us to design more and more immersive educational spaces. Academics and industry alike are striving to create the best possible online learning environment for our students.
The disruption caused by Covid-19 has had far reaching impacts and required all of us to adapt to life’s challenges under lockdown. University law clinics are no exception and law academics and clinic supervisors have had to act fast and think creatively to keep their clinical programmes running.