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Online Pedagogy: Law School

Distance Learning in Legal Education: Design, Delivery and Recommended Practices by Working Group on Distance Learning in Legal Education
Publication Date: 2015

Published by CALI.
Download free in your choice of format (e.g., PDF, Word, Kindle, Nook).

See this page to join the Working Group's online discussion.

Includes sample behavior policies (for students and faculty) in App. E2-E4 (at 111-19).

Online Teaching Resources from the American Association of Law Schools

Teaching Through Technology: This recorded Annual Meeting session from the Section on Technology, Law, and Legal Education offers resources for teaching in a digitalized age and making teaching more efficient through technology.

Online and Hybrid Learning Pedagogy Best Practices and Standards Development: This recorded AALS Discussion Group from the 2020 Annual Meeting covers standards and best practices for online learning in law school.

Teaching With Technology for Maximum Student Engagement: This recorded webinar from the Section on Technology, Law, and Legal Education's summer webinar series discusses different forms of technology such as interactive polls, QR codes, Google Forms, ExamSoft, multi-media, etc., that can be used to create an interactive classroom environment.

Online Pedagogy: General

Teaching in Times of Disruption [Drexel Login Required]
- Teaching during times of potential disruption requires creative and flexible thinking about how instructors can support students in achieving essential course goals. Remember, while you might not be able to teach something exactly the way you imagined, as long as you’re students are meeting the learning goals of the course, you’re doing fine.
Teach Anywhere [Stanford]
- "Be ready to temporarily take your class online during sudden and prolonged campus or building closures."
Sean M. Krahmer et al., Ensuring Instructional Continuity in a Potential Pandemic, Inside Higher Educ. (March 4, 2020).
- Includes table listing instructional strategies, student activities, and evidence of student attendance or participation for each
Emily A. Moore, From Passive Viewing to Active Learning: Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos, Faculty Forum (May 20, 2013)
Jan Welker & Lisa Berardino, Successful Practices in Online Teaching, The Exchange, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Dec. 2012), SSRN
- This paper is written for instructors reluctant to teach web-based courses (hereafter referenced as online courses) or [who] may be experiencing difficulties in one or more of the areas discussed herein. We find online teaching very satisfying and want to share our successful practices based on a combined 20 years of designing and delivering graduate and undergraduate courses online as well as the sustained positive feedback from our students in course evaluations. We will address faculty in this paper as instructors.
Florence Martin et al., Student perception of helpfulness of facilitation strategies that enhance instructor presence, connectedness, engagement and learning in online courses, 37 Internet & Higher Educ. 52-65 (2018)
Ten Steps Toward Universal Design of Online Courses [U. Ark. Little Rock Disability Resource Ctr.]
- Tips for making sure your online materials are accessible to all students
Anya Evmenova, Preparing Teachers to Use Universal Design for Learning to Support Diverse Learners, 4 J. Online Learning Research 147-71 (2018). Study of 70 educators in master's programs at two universities.

Darby Flower, How to Be a Better Online Teacher (Advice Guide), Chron. of Higher Educ.

Includes 10 essential principles and practices of better online teaching (with discussion):

Show up to class.
Be yourself.
Put yourself in their shoes.
Organize course content intuitively.
Add visual appeal. (Note: All visuals should be accessible to all students.)
Explain your expectations.
Scaffold learning activities.
Provide examples.
Make class an inviting, pleasant place to be.
Commit to continuous improvement.

Faculty Focus, Special Report, Online Teaching Strategies: 10 Principles of Effective Online Teaching.

23-page PDF if free to download if you register for Faculty Focus e-newsletter. Includes:

7 Strategies to Promote Community in Online Courses
Tips from the Pros: Retrieval Practice in Online Teaching
Convey Your Online Teaching Persona
Designing Effective Team Projects in Online Courses
Ten Online Teaching Tips You May Not Have Heard
What We Can Learn From Unsuccessful Online Students
What Do Students Really Want From Online Instructors?
The Art and Science of Successful Online Discussions
Using Bridge Questions to Teach Technical Content Online
A Mini Guide for Fixing Anything That Can Go Wrong in the Online Classroom

Key Contacts: Technical Support

Blackboard Support
Faculty who encounter issues online related to Blackboard should contact: lawblackboard@drexel.edu
LawTech Support
Faculty teaching in the building with A/V problems or faculty anywhere with hardware/software issues on their computers should contact: lawtech@drexel.edu
Account Support
Faculty with problems logging in to their accounts or activating/fixing their multi-factor authentication should contact accounts@drexel.edu or 215-895-2020 for assistance.

Instructor Resources

PowerNotes Guide
Guide to PowerNotes with video tutorials and other links.
PowerNotes Instructor Support
Resources for instructors to use PowerNotes to teach research and writing skills, including lesson plans and remote instructional tools.
PowerNotes for Student Legal Research
Video demonstrating how PowerNotes can be used in legal research instruction.