The Virtual Court Action: procedural facilitation in law
When they learn procedural law, students need to understand and memorize the forms of legal court action which can be carried out by parties to a case. A large proportion of this body of law is descriptive and factual, but complex too; and the constraints of academic curricula do not allow students...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association for Learning Technology
1998-12-01
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| Series: | Research in Learning Technology |
| Online Access: | http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/10992 |
| Summary: | When they learn procedural law, students need to understand and memorize the forms of legal court action which can be carried out by parties to a case. A large proportion of this body of law is descriptive and factual, but complex too; and the constraints of academic curricula do not allow students to learn procedural law in the real environment of the court. As a result, even with the inclusion of case law, and with examples to contextualize the procedural principles, the subject can be perceived as an exercise in knowledge acquisition alone (Vaughn, 1995). |
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| ISSN: | 2156-7069 2156-7077 |