Legal Research

Legal Education Podcasting Project

By jlutz99

During the Spring semester 2006, CALI sponsored a project to investigate the efficacy of podcasting in legal education.  Faculty from various schools recorded their lectures and posted them to the CALI website.  Mary McCormick was one of the participants.  After the course ended students were asked to respond to a survey.

Here is a brief summary of the some of the results:
To the question, would you like future law school classes to use podcasting?
     79.5% responded Yes.
To the question about representing their activities when listening to a podcast:
     38% said they listened to a part of the podcast to clarify a point.
     46.5% said they listened to all of the podcast to see if they missed anything.
     57.2% said they listened to take notes or updates class notes.
     19.9% listened multiple times to a single podcast.
To the question, rate the overall value of the podcasts you have listened to:
     47.5% claimed 'excellent value.'
     26.3% claimed 'above average value.'

You can view the results of the entire survey here.  You can learn more about CALI efforts in classcasting here.  And view a CALI Legal Education Podcasting Project faq here.

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on September 05, 2006 (boomark / email).