Since 1916, Supreme Court confirmation hearings have been open to the public at large. As the medium of television became more mainstream, broadcasting the confirmation hearings was used as a means of making them available to an even wider audience. …
This post provides my three main takeaways from the book Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education[1] regarding the implications for law schools and legal education. This book examines Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other platforms that …
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Dear LIT members, On behalf of the Recruitment & Involvement committee I would like to invite you to our informative and casual coffee talk on March 18. Please consider inviting new members from other SISes as we are hoping to …
The expansion of administrative agencies during the New Deal and after World War II, is considered by some, to be one of the most impactful developments in American government and politics. The enactment of Administrative Procedure Act (APA) established a …
This is a short post to tell others about a free resource I came across recently. Quality Matters (QM) is a non-profit organization that provides rubrics and certifications for online and blended courses. While taking an online class from QM, …
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The Problem: Default Preview Images Make Bland Profiles When you upload a document to EGS like the PDF of an article, the default preview and thumbnail image is usually black and white text, and the visual presentation of articles and …
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As a newly merged SIS, we are starting from scratch with our committees this year and need both committee chairs and committee members for all of our LIT-SIS committees (although if you’ve served as a committee chair in the past …
Once again, a virtual AALL annual meeting deserves a virtual LIT-SIS Karaoke with Ken. And for another reason to celebrate, this marks twenty years since the event first was sponsored by the section. We’ll kick off at 8:00 PM EDT …
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With the theme of the “Distance Ed Genie Is Out of the Bottle”, this year’s CALICon didn’t disappoint on the online legal instructional front. From a keynote YouTuber delivering live-demo-style video tips to the closing CALI keynote highlighting their own …
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Join the rest of LIT-SIS in welcoming our new board members: Chelsey A. McKimmy, Secretary/Treasurer Tanya S. Thomas, Member-at-Large We appreciate all the candidates and thank them for running! Our by-laws provision also passed unanimously, removing the election requirement for …
