If you want to integrate ICT in your legal teaching, what are the simply-cannot-succeed withhout-these- must-knows?
START by applying the following six guidelines:
- Align learning goals, learning activities and assessments
- Learning goals provide guidance for the learning direction. These goals are derived from needs in the working place.
- Learning activities translate information into skill and knowledge.
- Assessments provide insurance that learning goals have indeed been achieved.
- Provide advance information to learners
- Learning goals: what will I be able to do?
- Learning activities: what will I be doing?
- Learning material: what are my references; which media?
- Support: do I get suitable support; where can I go with my questions?
- Rules and sanctions: what are the do’s and the don’ts?
3. Use activating learning activities
- We learn most of what we do.
- Observe own learning activities.
- Draw theoretical conclusions from own activities
- Experiment with new learning activities
- Address differences in learners
- Different entry skills and knowledge
- Different learning styles
- Stimulate self-confidence in learners
- Provide suitable challenges
- Allow suitable practice and provide feedback
- Slowly increase level of difficulty
- Be approachable for learners
- Diminish physical and psychological distance as much as possible