13/01/2010 - Making Law Teaching Accessible and Inclusive
Finding ways in which technology can be used to help law teachers engage with as wide an audience as possible is the subject of a recent article by Simon Ball, Senior Advisor, JISC TechDis and Helen James, Head of Law at the University of Winchester.
The increasing availability of ICT in the realm of the law teacher or lecturer offers an opportunity for increased engagement with a wider variety of learners. The article, published in the Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT) in December 2009, introduces a variety of ways in which technology can be integrated into everyday law teaching practice to enhance accessibility and inclusion, some of which can be achieved with minimal effort.
Legislation requires that teaching be inclusive to students with a range of needs including disabilities, so it makes sense for law lecturers to lead the way in embracing the use of technology where it can be successfully developed for the benefit of learners.
The article, which follows a series of collaborations with the UK Centre for Legal Education, will hopefully enable the process of creating inclusive learning materials to become better understood within the profession. It concludes by suggesting seven questions that law teachers might ask in order to determine their approach to inclusion.
To read the article, go to: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/2009_3/ball
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