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Pay for Play
Pay for play is a big topic in college sports right now. The NCAA vaguely…
A Bountiful Harvest of Practice Problems – Just in Time for Final Exam Season
It's quite common for most of us learn to prepare for final exams...by, unfortunately, not…
Wise Interventions: A Searchable Research Database
Thanks to the work of social psychologists Gregory Walton (Stanford) and Timothy Wilson (Univ. of…
Posted inLearning Styles Science Study Tips - General
Neuromyths
The Legal Skills Prof. Blog had 2 excellent posts last week regarding metacognition. The posts…
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One Way to Examine the Educational Experience
I have been reading about the concept of "community of inquiry", a model that attempts…
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Are We Hiding the Ball?
To what extent should student preferences be considered in establishing legal education norms? In the face of changing enrollment demographics and declining bar passage, would being more direct with learning deliverables produce more practice ready graduates, or would it dilute the quality of legal education as we know it?
The Calm Before the Storm
One of my favorite seasons of the academic year runs between the last week of…
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Back to Basics – Part II
Authority is not credibility. Deference to one's subject matter expertise can be extinguished with the speed of a hand raise.
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Let Me Use Words You Can Understand
Last year, one of my international students brought to me a response she had written…
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Back to Basics
Even though time consuming, doing homework on our audience is just as important as being well studied in the subject matter that we teach.