Technology reviews by First Year Law Students

Authors

  • Sarah Crofts University of Greenwich

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21100/compass.v4i8.87

Keywords:

Assessment, Writing skills

Abstract

First year Law students submitted technology reviews as part of an assessment for their Legal Method course with the promise that the best reviews would be submitted to Compass. They were asked to base their reviews on “any freely available app, tool, piece of software which you feel has a benefit for anyone studying or teaching LAW”.

Author Biography

Sarah Crofts, University of Greenwich

Sarah Crofts is a based in the Greenwich campus library and is Senior Academic Services Librarian for Law and Criminology. She is interested in the general area of students’ digital literacy and is is co-author (with Irene Barranco, Maggie Leharne and Rachael Hartiss) of the iPROGRESS online information skills course. Sarah is also an Associate Teaching Fellow and participates in teaching legal research on the Law School courses.

References

Burton, K. (2011), `A framework for determining the authenticity of assessment tasks: applied to an example in law’, Journal of Learning Design, 4 (2), pp. 20-28.

Nyampfene, A. (2011), `Harnessing the internet for authentic learning: towards a new Higher Education paradigm for the 21st Century’, in Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Learning, Sonning Common: Academic Conferences and Publishing, pp. 586-592.

Strachan, R., Pickard, A. and Laing, C. (2010), `Bringing technical authoring skills to life for students through an employer audience’, Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 9 (2), DOI: 10.11120/ital.2010.09020009.

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Published

12/18/2013

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 8 (2013): Compass: The Journal of Learning and Teaching

Section

Technology Reviews

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