A Module on Teaching Transactional Lawyering Skills
(Legal Skills Prof Blog) By Scott Fruehwald Author posts an abstract and link to Mary Ann Robinson’s (Villanova Law) recent article in Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law, which describes a one-credit business and financial literacy module developed at Villanova Law to help first-year students get comfortable with the numbers behind business deal-making.
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(PrawfsBlawg) By Howard Wasserman Professor Matthew Lawrence (Penn State Dickinson Law) highlights ten apps that can help law faculty stay productive and organized in teaching, service, and scholarship.
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(Slaw) Canadian law blog links to an article by Nikos Harris, Q.C. (University of British Columbia Law) in the University of British Columbia Law Review which advocates for “low-tech” teaching methods and note-taking based on recent research on the risks of laptops and other technology in the classroom.
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CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Lay your finger on the pulse of higher education — teaching centers, faculty-development conferences, student-affairs offices, water-cooler discussions — and you’ll find a steady thrum of concern about the rising rates of student anxiety in and out of the classroom.
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