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The 2006-2007 CALI CD is shipping this week to law schools that pre-ordered it for their incoming students. The CALI CD contains a snapshot of all of the lessons that we publish and is available to CALI-member law schools that want to give it out to their 1Ls FOR FREE (Yes, it’s free to 1Ls, […]

John Dale’s blog, Autology (curious name there) points me to an SSRN article that I missed somehow. Professor Benjamin Barton at the University of Tennessee College of Law.has uploaded a draft of his article "Is There a Correlation Between Scholarly Productivity, Scholarly Influence and Teaching Effectiveness in American Law Schools? An Empirical Study". The spoiler […]

I’ve been having some fascinating discussions with Elmer Masters, CALI’s Internet Guy(tm). We have been hashing out the next phase of the Legal Education Podcasting Project (or LEPP II for short). The success of LEPP I and the amount of press that podcasting and education is getting that podcasting education content is going thermonuclear. In […]

Two articles crossed my path today and I would like to juxtapose two clips. The first is from the New York Times titled "Schoolbooks Are Given F’s in Originality" by Diana Jean Schemo. Here’s the quote… "…William Cronon, a historian at the University of Wisconsin who wrotethe American Historical Association’s statement on ethics, saidtextbooks were […]

In my presentation at the CALI Conference last month (screencast/podcast), one of my arguments for creating a digital repository of course materials was avian flu. I took some jibes for that from some quarters, but I have been running across other articles on the web that support my position. The blog Lanny on Learning says… […]

In the Spring/Winter 2006 semester, CALI conducted the Legal Education Podcasting Project where about 30 faculty recorded their classroom lectures or created weekly summary podcasts for their students. We did a mid-semester survey and the results were reported here. The PDF of that report is here. I have also conducted about a dozen interviews with […]

What are the career prospects for an IT Professional in education? Maybe this book will answer that question and many others. From the blurb… "…provides an overview of current principles and practices for mentoringand developing the next generation of IT leaders in higher education.Edited by EDUCAUSE Vice President Cynthia Golden and written by topleaders in […]

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 […]

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 […]