LegalEd's Igniting Law Teaching 2015 Conference

My colleague Michele Pistone is the founder of LegalEd, a nonprofit dedicated to using new ideas and technology to improve legal teaching. Its 2015 Igniting Law Teaching conference is this week. Even if you can't attend, check out the videos either on live feed or after the conference - last year's presentations have been viewed thousands of times.

Here is the announcement and info:

Registration is now open for LegalED’s Igniting Law Teaching 2015.  The conference is Friday, March 20, 2015 from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm EST at American University Washington College of Law.  It is also available for live viewing by webcast.

 The conference will feature talks by 30 law school academics and practitioners from the US, Canada and England in a TEDx-styled conference to share ideas on teaching methodologies.  LegalED’s Teaching Pedagogy video collection includes many of the talks from last year’s conference, which have been viewed collectively more than 5000 times.

 The panels for this year include: Law Teaching for the 21^st Century, Applying Learning Theory to Legal Education, The Art and Craft of Law Teaching, Using Technological Tools for Legal Education, and Pathways to Practice.  Here is a link to the topics, speakers and schedule.

 The Igniting Law Teaching conference is unlike other gatherings of law professors.  Here, talks will be styled as TEDx Talks, with each speaker on stage alone, giving a well scripted and performed 8 minute talk about an aspect of law school pedagogy.  In the end, we will create a collection of short videos on law school-related pedagogy that will inspire innovation and experimentation by law professors around the country, and the world, to bring more active learning and practical skills training into the law school curriculum.  The videos will be available for viewing by the larger academic community on LegalED, a website developed by a community of law professors interested in using online technologies to facilitate more active, problem-based learning in the classroom, in addition to better assessment and feedback.

 We hope you can join us on March 20^th, either live or virtually.