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This is the next in a series of podcast interviews with law faculty who participated in the Legal Education Podcasting Project. Professor Aaron Fellmeth of Arizona State University School of Law recorded the classroom of his Patent Law class. He is a self-proclaimed "fast talker" and believes that the podcast helped his students because they […]

One of the obstacles to distance learning adoption is the finalexam. How can you be sure that the student who hands in the exam is theone who wrote it or that they didn’t access all kinds of informationwhile writing it. Even in the classroom, it’s hard to proctor students who can useubiquitous wireless technologies to […]

During my podcast interview with Professor Scott Burnham, we were joined by James Cramer, Director of IT at Montana who discusses a survey he conducted of students who were in Professor Burnham’s Contracts courses in relation to their use of the podcasts. We also talk about technical issues, equipment setup, staffing and the future of […]

This is is our third interview with a law faculty podcaster whoparticipated in the Legal Education Podcasting Project this past Spring2006 semester. Professor Scott Burnham recorded weekly summaries and recorded the classroom for this students. (Full disclosure, Professor Burnham is on the CALI Board of Directors). This podcast is 17 minutes and 15 seconds long. […]

A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article called "How Big is theBiggest Library:" that was riffing off of the Kevin Kelly NYTimesarticle "Scan This Book". In it, I estimated that the total size ofall data was about 39 petabytes which came close to Kelly’s estimate of50 petabytes. From a recent post at BarronsOnline… […]

This is the second in a series of podcast interviews with law faculty who participated in the Legal Education Podcasting Project. This interview was conducted on Friday, May 26. 2006 with Professor Willliam Gregory from Georgia State University School of Law. Professor Gregory recorded the classroom for his students (including extensive presentations by his students) […]

I recently finished reading Michael Madison’s pre-print article Legal Scholarship and the Economy of Prestige and it was very enlightening, but I had the thought that I have never seen a ranking of law faculty whereas I have seen law school rankings and read discussions, papers and diatribes in the hundreds. In all of the […]

I have been interviewing faculty for the past couple of days whowere involved in the Legal Education Podcasting Project and one of thequestions that I put to each of them is …. As technologyimproves to deliver even more high fidelity digital lectures – audioand video, do you think that this medium will come to replace […]

Update: I re-worked the recording in Audacity to remove as much of the static that crept into the recording. The podcast link below links to the new recording. This past spring semester, CALI conducted the Legal Education Podcasting Project where over 30 law faculty used podcasting in their courses. We conducted surveys of the students […]

The title of this post is taken from Jeff Jarvis’ post on Buzzmachine. It’s a great article and I wanted to do my characteristic read in relation to legal education. Let’s start with a clip… “…The problems with books are many: They are frozen in time without the means of being updated and corrected. They […]