Law School, ANU College of Law
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Professor Jolyon Ford has tried to revitalise traditional large-group compulsory law subjects sometimes perceived as boring ‘must-do’ subjects. He has done this by introducing innovations that foster more active and interactive learning among first-year students. These have included appealing online pre-lecture materials that help guide learning and free up in-lecture time, in-lecture polling exercises, and new assessed group-work – still very rare in core subjects in Australian law schools.
“... helping [students] to block out some of the noise of society and social media and really focus on the key issues that will help them throughout their studies and their career.”
“My advice [to academics] would be to reach out to the experts, educational designers and others, and keep an open mind about the ways in which we've always done things and the ways in which
we might do things in future.”
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