Kryvoi, Yaraslau;
(2023)
Putting Legal Education into a Practical Context: The Potential of Online Learning.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This PhD thesis focuses on online legal education and explains why conventional legal education often fails to adapt to the changing nature of the legal profession. It proposes a theoretical foundation and practical recommendations for transforming online legal education to make it more accessible and effective as well as economically viable. This thesis builds upon theories of cognitive learning and the use of online technologies to design a portfolio of research-informed digital pedagogy, instantiated as an online course (International Investment Law and Dispute Resolution). The thesis follows the design-based research approach using the quantitative and qualitative methods of surveys of learners, interviews of learners and practitioners, and analysis of learning platform data. For the online course it develops and refines a variety of learning design elements including texts, videos, and quizzes, to develop professionally relevant knowledge and skills as the intended learning outcomes of this guided self-learning approach. The thesis also analyses what makes legal education different compared to other disciplines and implements the findings from the directed design-based research. Finally, on the basis of the literature review and four iterative design-based research stages, the thesis introduces the Contextualised, Active Learning, Adaptive Skills (CALAS) model for legal education to improve learning videos and integrate interactive elements for the learner’s active construction of knowledge. The CALAS model could help to make legal education more accessible across many jurisdictions, more effective, and more relevant to the practice of law, through the use of online technologies. The thesis provides the literature review, theoretical and methodological basis for, and reflective commentary on the design, development, and evaluation of an online course in legal education. The course constitutes the creative body of work being studied and is provided as a digital portfolio to exemplify and test an approach for the future of legal education
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Putting Legal Education into a Practical Context: The Potential of Online Learning |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166824 |
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