Draft Bylaws Proposed AALS Section on Educational and Instructional Technology
Association of American Law Schools
Bylaws of the Section on Educational and Instructional Technology
Article I. Name and Purpose
Section 1. Name. This section shall be known as the Section on Educational and Instructional Technology.
Section 2. Purpose. The purpose of this section is to promote the communication of ideas, interests, and activities among members and to make recommendations to the Association on matters concerning educational and instructional technology in legal education and scholarship.
Article II. Membership
Section 1. Membership.
A Call to Create the AALS Section on Educational and Instructional Technology
Having recently returned from my seventh consecutive AALS Annual Meeting it seems to me that now would be a good time to create an AALS section that focuses on educational and instructional technology. Over the past years I've noticed a couple of trends at the annual meeting. First, anything that touches on technology in relation to education and scholarship draws big crowds. Second, the number of associate/assistant deans and directors representing administrative functions of the law schools attending AALS has increased but this doesn't seem to include IT deans and directors. So, you have a situation where several thousand law school faculty are eagerly consuming any tech nuggets they find but without the voices of the IT folks who can provide the best guidance. Of course, this is something we can change.
While a number of AALS Sections include some sort of technology bent in their annual programs, there is not a section that is focused on bringing faculty the latest information about educational and instructional technology on a regular basis. This is the role I see for this section. The idea is to have a Section that does an annual program that provides the AALS Annual Meeting attendees with information about, and demonstrations of, the latest in educational and instructional technologies. The Section would provide a forum for interested faculty to interact with IT professionals in a situation that outside of the normal structures of the IT/faculty relationship.
CODEC: Legal Distance Education Experiences
Use this space to describe your experiences teaching or supporting a legal distance education course.
CODEC: Distance Education and Instructional Technology
This forum lets law schools list and describe the technologies they are using to support learning and teaching in the classroom and at a distance. Include anything that your school is using such as learning/course management systems, video/teleconferencing, course/lecture archiving, podcasting , blogging, hardware for classrooms and anything else that supports education and teaching at your school.
CODEC: Distance Education Courses Wanted
Use this forum as a kind of 'wish list' for distance education courses that your school would be interested in using. Please make your requests as specific as possible.
What should I post in this forum?
by Elmer Masters. Please think of this forum as a sort of wish list. If your school is interested in a particular course taught at a distance, this is the place to post. Ideally this will become part of a marketplace for courses.
CODEC: Distance Education Courses Available
Use this forum to post information about distance education courses your school has available. Be sure to include as much information as you can including:
- Course name
- Detailed course description
- Name of faculty member teaching the course
- Course website
- Semester course is available
- Any deadlines
- Contact person
Summer 2006: European Union Law & Policy -- University of Denver College of Law
by Don SmithFrom late May through the end of July 2006, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law will offer European Union Law & Policy on-line. This course marks the eighth time the college of law has offered the 3-credit course on-line. The course is open to all law students. First launched in 2002, the DU course has been successfully offered to nearly 200 students from six different law schools. The course is led by Don C. Smith, an adjunct professor of law with a masters in European Union Law from the University of Leicester (England) Faculty of Law and formerly a publishing executive with one of Europes largest publishers. In past courses, Mr. Smith has been assisted by a range of European-based experts including EU officials and European lawyers, law professors, think-tank leaders, and journalists.
For those who may benefit, we offer at our law school the following:
by Dr. Mathias Alfred JarenGreetings from Abraham Lincoln University Law School in Los Angeles. We have a full legal education curriculum on line, including live streaming video classroom interactive programs broadcasting at 6:30 p.m. Pacific Time, and also on Sats. These courses are particularly suitable for law students seeking licensure in California, and international students who wish to prepare for the difficult CAl. Bar Exam. Deans at ABA Schools should review student enrollment plans to ensure courses taken will be accepted for credit at their schools. See us at www.alu.eduand feel free to send questions to ajaren@alu.eduThank You
Insurance Law
by James HoggI have offered an Insurance Law course wholly online for the past two years and am offering it again this fall semester beginning August 25. A copy of the course syllabus is attached.If students from law schools other than Williem Mitchell College of Law are interested in taking this course they should contact me directly at:jhogg@wmitchell.edu


