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CUHK LAW Directions in Legal Education Seminar – ‘Redesigning the Law Student Learning Experience: Embracing Opportunities post-Covid’ by Mr. Chris Umfreville & Ms. Rebekah Marangon (Online)
12 Jun 2024
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Chris Umfreville is the Deputy Dean Education for the College of Business and Social Sciences at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Formerly a practising solicitor with an international law firm, Chris has extensive experience of programme design, management and delivery. Chris’ teaching practice focuses on business law subjects, with a particular focus on Company and Insolvency Law. He is an advocate for innovation in the curriculum and its assessment, with a particular interest in simulation and gamification, which he has presented on at international events.
Rebekah is the Programme Director for the LLB Law programme at Aston Law School, Birmingham, UK. Her expertise lies in Succession Law, with experience designing and delivering core legal subjects including contract law, equity and trusts, and land law. Rebekah’s passion extends beyond subject matter expertise, with a research focus on pedagogic innovation. In particular, Rebekah’s focus lies in leveraging technology to enhance the teaching and learning experiences for both educators and students. Rebekah is also a co-convenor of LEGEND, a global group of legal scholars exploring games-based learning.
In March 2020, universities across the globe were faced with the challenge of pivoting at pace to online delivery due to the impact of the Covid-19 Global Pandemic. In the months that followed, institutions adopted a range of often novel approaches to the delivery of learning and teaching in response to national and local conditions, including mandated lockdowns, local restrictions and isolation requirements. This period of rapid development provided an opportunity to review the traditional legal education model, learning from the enforced changes and implementing the best of these in future delivery.
At Aston University, this period also coincided with the development and launch of an innovative undergraduate law degree in September 2021. In this webinar we will explore how we adapted our delivery to adopt a blended approach post-Covid, and in turn the opportunities this presented for delivery of the new law degree. We will also consider student engagement with and feedback on the new delivery model, and how this has influenced our ongoing development of the programme.
Language: English
