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It looks like this year will be a watershed for new ebook readers. The popularity of Apple’s iPod and the business model of iTunes has shown the way for this to work. There are at least three ebook readers due for release in the next couple of months based on Eink technology. The most anticipated […]

I was having a very interesting discussion with Elmer Masters about how law faculty categorize what they do and how they think during the creation of legal education and scholarship. One high-level categorization system could be the "school of thought" that is being promulgated within the lecture, article or case commentary or analysis. As a […]

Michael Sparks the Computing Services Director at LSU Law School conducted a survey of how law schools manage wireless access in their classrooms. The survey pdf is here: wirelesssurvey.pdf. There were 56 responding law schools and the results should not be too surprising. Some schools are using technology to restrict student surfing by either switching […]

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI www.cali.org) has a launched a project where over 50 law faculty from 44 US and one Canadian law schools are creating podcasts of their courses in the Spring 2006 semester. The goal of the project is to investigate the use of podcasting in legal education. Faculty and students […]

MBS said it surveyed students at campuses that offered the digital textbooks and discovered that the biggest factor in students’ decision to buy digital textbooks was their price. Student said the books should be discounted between 33 percent and 50 percent. According to MBS, the most popular electronic books sold were in the fields of […]

The good news for the technophobics is that podcasts are (relatively) simple – the MP3 files generated by podcasters are relatively easy to create and don’t require high-priced equipment, allowing teachers to record without a large investment of time or money by the school. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Advertisement feature | Podcasting for schools – the basics […]

Through this event, we are looking to highlight the ways in which tools of new media and the social web are impacting higher education. Are you doing something with blogs or podcasts in student admission? Are you developing online communities for alumni? Have you tried classroom podcasting? Are you a student who’s pioneering the use […]

The AKFQuiz package lets you easily make your own quiz games or learning exercises. These can be used either with grquiz in a graphical environment (SDL), with crtquiz on a text terminal, or with diaquiz in a GUI environment. There is also a line oriented variant, linequiz, which can be used as a backend. A […]

There is an inherent tension between law schools, teachers and students. School wants student to succeed – be happy – become a rich alum and donate – and pass the bar. Teacher wants to student to learn – and not bug them too much – and only learn what the teacher thinks is important. Teacher […]

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) are collaborating on a project to create podcasts, digital audio recordings, of most of the presentations to be made at the 2006 AALS Annual Meeting to be held January 3-7, 2006 in Washington, DC. CALI staff will be handling the […]