Online & Hybrid Learning Conference

September 22 – 24, 2022

Online Learning Conference September 22 – 24, 2022

  

  • 2022 Conference Presentation Videos

    2022 Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy Conference Presentation Videos

    Thursday, September 22

    1:30 p.m. Welcome to the Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy Conference (David Thomson, Denver, Dean Bruce Smith, Denver) Watch Video
    2:00 p.m. Evidence-Based Research to Guide and Shape Legal Education - Hybrid and Online (Tiffane Cochran, AccessLex) Watch Video
    2:25 p.m. Empirical Designs in Efficacy Research on Hybrid and Online Education (Vicki VanZandt, Dayton) Watch Video
    2:50 p.m. International Perspectives on Regulators, Professionalism, and Legal Education (Paul Maharg, Newcastle) Watch Video
    3:40 p.m. Community Building: Reports from Recent Distance Learning Working Groups and Q&A (Jon Garon, NSU, Rebecca Purdom, UNH, William Byrnes, Texas A&M) Watch Video
    4:20 p.m. Listening to Learners: Panel Discussion and Q&A with Online and Hybrid Law Students (Moderator: David Thomson, Denver, Students: Kelsey Wilcox, Denver, Ali Stillman, Dayton, Ken Richard, UNH, Tammie Ton, St. Francis) Watch Video

    Friday, September 23

    9:00 a.m.

    Evidence-Based Design: Learning from the Past and Workshopping the Future (Concurrent & Consecutive Sessions)
      Lesson from the Data – Legal Education Responds to the Pandemic (Moderator: Vicki Van Zandt, Dayton) Watch Video
    Featuring:
    • Pandemic Empiricism: What the Data Says Worked and Didn’t During the COVID Crisis (James Levy, NSU)
    • Successful Synchronous Sessions: Using Synchronous Classes and Office Hours to Connect Material and Build Rapport (with student perspectives) (Anna Elbroch, UNH)
      Online and Hybrid Student-Centered Learning Workshop (Consecutive Sessions and Q&A) (Moderator: Sara Berman, Touro) Watch Video
    Featuring:
    • Building Community to Enhance Learning (Sophie Sparrow, UNH)
    • Improve Summative Assessment and Learning Outcomes by Using Online Tools to Create Purposeful Formative Assessments (Elena B. Langan, Touro, Patricia Baia, Touro)
    10:00 a.m. Plenary: Regs Affecting Distance Learning (Moderator: Greg Brandes) Watch Video
      Featuring:
    • The Impact of Changes in ABA Standards (William Adams, ABA)
    • Higher Education Funding and Access (Chris Chapman, AccessLex)
    • Q & A (Moderator: Greg Brandes)
    11:15 a.m. Plenary: Evidence-Based Learning Design for Online Programs (Nicole Noël, NESL, Chance Meyer, NESL) Watch Video
    1:00 p.m. Looking Ahead: Improving Pedagogy from Experience (2 Concurrent Sessions; No Moderators)
      Taking Stock: Applying Lessons Learned from Emergency Online Teaching to “Normal Times” Remote Education (Cindy Thomas Archer, UCI, Aimee Dudovitz, Loyola LA, Amy Levin, Loyola LA, Hillary Reed, U of Houston) Watch Video
      The Next Chapter: The Empirical Journey Through a School-Wide MBE Project… And How the Pandemic Changed Our Path Forever (Elizabeth Xyr, Monterey) Watch Video
    2:10 p.m Online Pedagogy: Regulation and Design (Concurrent Sessions) Watch Video
      Teaching a Hybrid Administrative Law Simulation Class Using Jurassic Park (Roberto Corrada, Denver) Watch Video
      Proposals for Post-Pandemic Regulation and Curricular Reform Workshop (Moderator: Greg Brandes) Watch Video
      Distance Learning in Law Schools: Why It’s Time to Permanently Remove Restrictions (Kandace Kukas, Northeastern)
      Panel Discussion: Curriculum in the New Era of Legal Education (Jon Garon, NSU, Sophie Sparrow, UNH, Vicki VanZandt, Dayton, Elena Langan, Touro)
      The Student Experience
      The Importance of the Student Experience in Online Education (Catherine Schenker, AUWCL)
      Expanding Accessibility to Legal Education through Deliberate Online Design Choices (Susan Landrum, U of I Urbana-Champaign) Watch Video
    3:15 p.m. Plenary: LSAC Assessment Workshop – Assessments and Learning: Unlocking the Potential in all Law Students (Moderator: Zach DeMeola, LSAC) (Panelists: Lily Knezevich, LSAC, Jeremy Sakovich, LSAC, Michele Pistone, Villanova) Watch Video

    Friday, September 23

    9:00 a.m Research & Assessment: Partners in Pedagogy (2 Concurrent Workshop Sessions)
      Featuring:
    • Empirical Research Workshop Watch Video
    • Teaching Online Advanced Legal Research – Optimize Student Learning Experience Watch Video

     

 

Building on the overwhelming success of the 2019 conference, the Online & Hybrid Learning Conference returns in 2022.

Distance education and other modern learning tools are hard at work in legal education and have now been applied across a broad sampling of schools. Outcomes-oriented design, integrated formative and summative assessment, online simulations, asynchronous learning, and other hallmarks of distance education have demonstrated efficacy in law teaching for decades. But… a robust empirical research agenda is just beginning to develop. The interesting questions continue to center around how and where these modern learning tools and disciplines can be used to best advantage.

Bringing together leaders of legal education and law school innovation, “Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy: Toward Defining Best Practices in Legal Education” will nurture the emerging consensus on best practices in a new era of change and challenge in legal education: 

  • For faculty looking to engage with tools now available to them to better their teaching and the students’ learning, there’s no better place to come and learn.  
  • For deans and administrators looking to encourage stronger academic performance and better outcomes for a new generation of law students -- and trying to predict what’s ahead for legal education -- the tools and approaches discussed at this conference will help.   
  • For the practice minded, experts on classroom and hybrid online applications will critically examine questions of balance, when live classrooms work best, and where teaching is better done in a hybrid or fully online learning environment. 

So much has changed, but so much is still the same…  This community seeks to identify emerging best practices, derived from more than 20 years of distance education in legal education, including the emergency remote teaching of mid-March to June 2020 and the more measured and planned practices employed before and since. Join us, to move this vital conversation forward.