Professor Susan Blake, Danon Pritchard and Marc Mimler
Our Presentation will focus on our development of two blended learning programmes to be delivered by City Law School from 2023-24, and in particular some key innovative elements of these developments. Our fully revised LLM (Master of Laws) programme will enable students to learn face to face (physically) face to face (synchronously online) or asynchronously (with classes recorded and touch points with staff). Our new Solicitors Practice Programme will support students in learn legal knowledge and skills face to face, supported by substantial structured written and video materials online. Within this context, we will support the students in developing digital skills relevant to legal practice.
The main areas to be covered are:
How can we ensure our design for digital learning is student focussed, so it supports their learning effectively?
How can digital approaches to learning best support student engagement, especially where we seek to provide flexibility for student learning options?
How can digital approaches help to build student learning communities?
In what ways can we develop digital skills in students to support their employability, and help students to appreciate the importance of this?
8 minutes – Overall key blended design principles. Key benefits for student learning. Developing best use of ISLA and digital skills pedagogy. Engaging students in design and evaluation.
15 minutes – Meeting the needs of in class, synchronous and asynchronous students on the LLM. Integrating student feedback into development. Techniques for engaging all students in ISLA classes. Creating effective touch points with asynchronous students. Building communities with students.
15 minutes – Embedding student digital skills development on the SPP. Working with a Student Digital Assistant from LEaD to develop a Digital Skills self-assessment tool. Using a LinkedIn Learning pathway to support digital skills development. Developing sector-specific digital skills in students (tools for document collaboration, research, video conferencing tools for lawyers). A student has been invited to speak as part of this section.
22 minutes – Discussion with the audience of potential transferable elements/learning outcomes.
- Students express interest in flexible learning modes, but how can students be engaged most effectively when using technologies such as ISLA?
- What are the best ways of building communities with students when they study in different modes? How can digital communities best integrate with physical ones?
- Students are often already building digital workplace skills as part of their programme, but they do not necessarily realise they are doing so. How can we best map and signpost digital skills so they are properly promoted to students?
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Digital strategies in UK higher eduction: making digital mainstream, Jisc, 2023
Blended Learning Review, Report of the OfS Blended Learning Review Panel, Office for Students, 2022.
Blended Learning and OfS Regulation, Office for Students, 2022
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