Enriching Globalization With Low Cost Tech & Social Media: Serving More than One Goal at a Time
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Enriching Globalization Studies With Low Cost Tech & Social Media:Serving More Than 1 Goal at a Time
Michele DeStefanoProfessor, University of Miami School of Law
Founder, LawWithoutWallsAALS 2014
Road Map
U.S. Law Market
U.S. Legal Education
“Certain things. They should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to
stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
- JD Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
36 Year Old Twinkie
Rising Costs
Enrollment Plummets
2010-2013: From 50,000 to 38,000
But not at Harvard Law School . . .
• Seton Hall Down 43%• Hamline Down 55%• Applications down 38% 2010-2013• AND even Harvard Law School has
fewer applications– Harvard accepted 16% of applicants for
2015 vs. 11% year prior
Predicting Law School Closings
Law School Market
Globalization
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Everyone is Affected by Globalization
Law School Market
Globalization
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Innovation
Multi-Disciplinary Open Collaboration is the Key to Innovation
So Many Reasons To Use Technology
“The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it. If more
than one goal is served, then a decision is more likely to be wise.”
- Russel, Children of God
Good & Bad Uses of TechTime, Space, Place
So Many Options (Not All Good)
Asynchronous
On-Line Education: MOOCs
2012 “Year of MOOC”
For Profit• Coursera: – More than 2 Million Registrants– Some classes more than 100,000 students– Over 370 courses– Partnerships with over 30 institutions including
Brown, Princeton, and Columbia
• Udacity 25 coursesNonProfit– Harvard and MIT EdX Non-profit $30 million and
35courses
Free of Charge but not for Long
Sell Names to Employers, Credit, Certificates
Mostly Computer Science & Math
But Also Legal EducationNon-Credit• Case Western Professor Michael
Scharf MOOC international criminal law (Coursera)
• UCL Dame Hazel MOOC English common law, (Coursera)
• Harvard‘s Professor William Fisher MOOC copyright law EdX)
• Yale‘s Professor Akhil Amar MOOC constitutional law (Coursera 2014)
But Also Legal EducationFor Credit• University of Akron School of Law
MOOC Commercial Paper for course• On Line LLM Degrees e.g.,
Washington University
And Around the World
Some Upsides & Downsides
Potential Upsides• Cost/Efficiency• Size• Fast & peer feedback• Global• Talent• Convenience
Potential Downsides• Testing/Grading (peer assessment)• Cheating• Quality• ABA Rules– 12 credits max for distance learning
courses– 4 credits max of distance learning in any
semester– No distance learning course for credit
during first year of law school
Pressure on the ABA
Synchronous
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
Depends on the Real Thing
Synchronous May Be More Up Close & Personal
Synchronous: Your Class
Blackboard, Google Drive, Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, One on-line class
Synchronous: Multi-University
LWOW X
Adobe Connect
The Future: Blended
MICHELE DESTEFANOFOUNDER, LAWWITHOUTWALLS
PROFESSOR OF LAW
Part-virtual collaboratory
Develops 21st century lawyering skills
Law + Business + Technology + Innovation
26 Law & Business Schools 45+ Students
Bifröst University (Iceland) Stanford Law School
Fordham Law School Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Harvard Law School University College London (UK)
IE Business School (Spain) University of Miami Law
IE Law School (Spain) University of Montreal Law
Indiana University Law University of São Paulo (Brazil)
National Law School of India University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
New York Law School University of Sydney Law (Australia)
Peking University STL (China) Wharton School of Business
Pontifical Catholic U (Chile) York University School of Business
Sciences Po Business (France) York University School of Law
Sciences Po Law (France) Witwatersrand Law (South Africa)
1. KickOff in person
2. Virtual Dynamic Teaming & weekly Virtual Sessions
3. ConPosium in person
Three Parts to LawWithoutWalls
DOCCs
DOCCs – Central Video
DOCCs - No Single Best Way
DOCCs- More than 1 Talking Head
Professor Michele DeStefano:Innovation Tech & the Law Course• In Person Component: • One hour in-person class sessions that
include a mix of teaming and skills-based exercises along with explorative sessions on entrepreneurial ventures and innovations in the law
• On-Line Component: • Assigned, pre-recorded 2-hour Virtual
Thought Leader Session (VTLS) from LawWithoutWalls.
• Assigned relevant reading materials on the weekly topics addressed by these sessions.
Professor Michele DeStefano:Innovation Tech & the Law Course
Semester Work: Students write weekly response papers that package their learnings from the readings, the research they conducted, and the VTLS into a provoking 1-2 page thought-piece.
Final Projects: Student teams develop a 6-7 minute ignite-style presentation on any topic, idea, or business solution that is a technological innovation in the law involving
Class Cloud: All course materials, WRPs, and assignments will be ]in a folders on Google Drive
The Future . . . Can’t Be Just on Cost
Tech: A Tool to Add Value
A Path: Not An End in Itself