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March 29, 2010

BILETA: The British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association does like to promote a more global conference than just British and Irish issues, delegates and indeed venues – so BILETA 2010 comes to Vienna and the remarkable central buildings

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BILETA 2010: A History of Legal Informatics

By Michael Bromby

March 29, 2010

Following welcome addresses from both the Law and Computer Science faculties, the conference chair (Erich Schweighofer) officially opened the conference and a panel of speakers gave a plenary address. Abdul Paliwala spoke of, and paid homage to, the pioneers of

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BILETA 2010 – E-learning Tools II

By Michael Bromby

March 29, 2010

The second e-learning tool session started with Sarah King and Angela Kerry who presented their Virtual Solicitors’ Office at Birmingham City University. Their emphasis is on the clients, their needs and reacting to the problem rather than solely concentrating on

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BILETA 2010 – New E Learning Tools I

By Michael Bromby

March 29, 2010

The first of several e-learning sessions at BILETA began after lunch. My own paper on using delicious for collaborative shared resources is online at slideshare. Questions focussed on dealing with disputes, if students felt that academic papers were wrongly

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BILETA 2010 – E-learning at the Vienna Universities: Round-table Session

By Michael Bromby

March 29, 2010

I thought, whist in Vienna, I would attend this parallel as the last session of the day to see how two universities in Vienna are using e-learning. The university law faculty is one of the oldest and largest faculties in

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BILETA 2010 – Ah, Vienna…

By Michael Bromby

March 19, 2010

Apparently Windows 7 started life as codename Vienna, and there is even a current facebook campaign to get the Ultravox song to the top of the UK singles chart by 4 April 2010. There’s also coffee and cakes… However,

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Open Educational Resources – Simulation Learning

By Michael Bromby

March 18, 2010

UKCLE have a project that is part of the Higher Education Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme: SimShare. 3 workshops across the UK are scheduled, and the first took place recently in Cardiff. Still to come are York (21 April)

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SSRN – law schools and Research Paper Series

By Michael Bromby

March 16, 2010

The Social Sciences Research Network is “devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences”. I’ve used it on and off over a

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Information Snacking

By Michael Bromby

March 15, 2010

The ‘Big Question’ for last month from Tony Carrer’s blog was this:”Instruction in an Information Snacking Culture?” There are a lot of aspects to this question:

Has there really been a shift? Are people changing their information consumption? Are they

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LILAC10 – Student Feedback, E-bay style

By Michael Bromby

January 29, 2010

The LILAC 2010 conference keynote speaker was Aaron Porter, the vice-president (higher education) of the National Union of Students. Speaking on the challenges ahead for the UK HE system, his argument was aimed at the broader level of education –

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