Speak with John Mayer about distance learning during the Online & Hybrid Learning Meeting 2019

Whether distance education and other modern learning tools work in legal education is no longer in question. Outcomes-oriented design, integral formative and summative assessment, online simulations, asynchronous learning, and other hallmarks of distance education have demonstrated efficacy in law teaching for 20 years (though a robust empirical research agenda has yet to develop.) The interesting questions now center around how and where these modern learning tools and disciplines can be used to best advantage.

Expertise now abounds among the academy, and this conference aims to collect and share it. The ABA has opened up legal education to a full year of online learning, and perhaps more significantly, to as much as a third of the first year.  Bringing together leaders of legal education and law school innovation, “Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy: Toward Defining Best Practices in Legal Education” will nurture the emerging consensus on best practices in a new era of change and challenge in legal education. 

For faculty looking to engage distracted students, there’s no better place to come and learn. For deans and administrators considering online learning offerings at their schools, and who are looking to encourage stronger academic performance and better outcomes for a new generation of law students, the tools discussed at this conference will help to improve evaluation and development of student capacities.  For the practice minded, experts on classroom and hybrid online applications will critically examine questions of balance, when live classrooms work best, and where teaching is better done in a hybrid or fully online learning environment.

 

Strengthen Your Legal Mind with CALI!

Welcome to law school.  This should be a proud moment in your life.  Your hard work and dedication has gotten you

here today, the first phase of becoming a lawyer.

 

As you embark upon this adventure, there will be times when it seems a bit overwhelming.  You will be faced with

the pressure to stay competitive, the burden of time management for studying, and the uncertainty of grasping

your courses' learning outcomes.

 

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CALI Announces the Publication of Five (5) eLangdell Press Casebooks

The 5 latest Creative Commons licensed eLangdell® Press casebooks are:

CALI’s eLangdell® Press publishes free casebooks and book chapters authored by law faculty.  All are available under a Creative Commons license so that faculty and students can use and remix the materials to suit their educational needs.

Now Available! Basic Income Tax (7th Edition) by William P. Kratzke - Cecil C. Humphreys Professor of Law (University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law)

This book is the 7th edition of a basic income tax text. This edition incorporates the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It is intended to be a readable text, suitable for a three-hour course for a class comprised of law students with widely different backgrounds. The text integrates several of the CALI drills that Professor James Edward Maule (Villanova University) prepared.

Stop by Booth #328 at the AALL Annual Meeting 2019 in Washington, DC

Stop by the CALI booth (#328) in the AALL 2019 exhibit hall to check out the demos on:

  • QuizWright® - a web app that lets law faculty write individual MC, T/F, Y/N questions, save the questions in a personal question bank, bundle the questions into quizzes, and uses CALI AutoPublish to publish the quizzes to the CALI website where students take the quizzes as formative assessments either live in class or as homework.
  • A2J Author® - A software tool that delivers greater access to justice for self-represented litigants by enabling non-technical authors from the courts, clerk's offices, legal service programs, and law schools to rapidly build and implement customer-friendly web-based interfaces for document assembly.
  • CALI Lessons - are 1000+ interactive tutorials in 30+ areas of the law written (and peer-reviewed) by law faculty and constantly kept up to date.  Combined with CALI LessonLink and CALI LessonLive, professors will have the ability to track students' usage and scores in real-time.

CALI announces the formation of the Law School and Bar Exam Study Skills Fellowship

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) announces the formation of the Law School and Bar Exam Study Skills Fellowship. The Fellowship is comprised of members of the academic success community from U.S. law schools. The goal of the Fellowship is to author CALI lessons to develop students’ critical-thinking skills. The materials will be peer-reviewed by the fellowship team and the CALI Editorial Board. Everyone at CALI member law schools will have access to these materials when they are published in late 2019.

Sara Smith Joins The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is pleased to announce the addition of Sara Smith as the new Assistant Director of Curriculum Development. In this newly created position, Sara will assist in the development of CALI’s e-learning materials for legal education, such as interactive lessons and free ebooks, and help facilitate CALI fellowships.

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