digital assessment for the youtube generation: reflective practice in 21 st century legal education...
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Digital Assessment for the YouTube
Generation: Reflective Practice in 21st Century
Legal Education
Nigel Firth (LLB Programme Leader) [email protected] and Craig Newbery-Jones (Lecturer in Law) [email protected]
This Paper…
In the next 12-15mins, we will…
1. Explain why we see innovative and technology-enhanced assessment as important in the twenty-first century law school…
2. Contextualise this assessment in ongoing curriculum changes..
3. Discuss how we have attempted to adapt a medium of assessment for skills learning that encourages reflective practice and draws upon social media as inspiration…
4. Reflect upon its success so far…
Innovative Digital Assessment
Students always seek new ways through which to interact and converse, especially in the age of social media…
Importance of Reflective Practice upon skills learning…
Importance of Oral reflection for employability…
Plymouth University Policy of Inclusive Assessment: - Encouraging all staff to consider more inclusive assessment for various learning styles…
As class sizes grow, so does the assessment burden…
Dispute Resolution Skills (DRS)
Year 2 Students work through a “real” case study from practice in teams
Focus is on experiential learning in a safe setting (and employability)
They operate as a virtual firm using face to face and on-line dialogue and “meetings” to progress their client’s case
Allocated tutors act as “clients” (and supervisor)
The module is a prelude to our work-based learning options in our Clinic
Case Working and Assessment Components
Emphasis on transferable skills rather than law/procedure
Assessment covers skills and reflective blog
Formative skills practice via small group sessions in their case groups
VBlogs and file/firm updates that leads to incremental development of their file that case tutors monitor and comment upon. Summary review of overall reflections at the end
SANSspace
SANSspace
Reflective Videos
Experiential Curriculum and Legal Skills Development must be accompanied by reflection…
“experiential learning is a process in which an experience is reflected upon and then translated into concepts which in turn become guidelines for new experiences.” Saddington, 2007
Oral Reflection is an employability skill…! The ability to orally express ones strengths, weaknesses, plans for improvement are vital importance…
Success so far…
The ability to undertake real-life case work has be praised in interim module evaluations…
As has the skills acquired so far… e.g. letter writing, client interviewing and drafting PoC and defence…
Combination of lecture and practical sessions has been engaged with well…
Excellent Assessment Marks in Part 1 – Client Letter and Research Memo…
Success so far…
SANSspace = X – While it does provide an excellent tool
for feedback and engagement with feedback, the software design is not user-friendly and certainly not student-friendly…
ELGG = Social media software, can act as a bridge between online collaboration and social media tools…
The final component is the compulsory element on reflection and the quality of oral reflection will be assessed shortly (in time to present findings in a formal paper)…
