We are online, anyway, so why not try something exciting! The potential of experiential learning in online classes for students of law

HRADILOVÁ, Alena. We are online, anyway, so why not try something exciting! The potential of experiential learning in online classes for students of law. In THE EULETA LEGAL ENGLISH HYBRID CONFERENCE 2021. 2021.

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Original name

We are online, anyway, so why not try something exciting! The potential of experiential learning in online classes for students of law

Authors

HRADILOVÁ, Alena

Edition

THE EULETA LEGAL ENGLISH HYBRID CONFERENCE 2021, 2021

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Keywords in English

online learning, experiential learning, community building, videoconferencing

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

In my presentation, I would like to address experiential learning in an international online course for law students as it had to be redesigned due to the COVID pandemic lockdown at European universities. The traditional pre-pandemic course has always had a videoconferencing component and was designed as an online-intercultural-exchangeinspired one. Our videoconferencing groups are normally in classrooms on their campuses and meet the other group on a big screen via stand-alone VC technology. We had to change the practice during the pandemic and switch to individual desktop computers fitted with a camera and appropriate software. Thus, we lost the natural environment of physical contact of the two classes and exchanged it for what seemed to be a more anonymous set-up of individuals on their cameras or just their voices. Nonetheless, the experiential content of the course delivered partly via tasks in breakout rooms led to the opposite result. I will offer the course structure that follows the idea of an experiential Learning Cycle, point out some relevant student feedback and discuss the lessons learnt.