Experiential Learning: Context and Connections for Legal Research – A Case Study by Cindy Guyer.
Abstract:
The ABA requires that all law students receive “substantial instruction” in legal research. This article discusses a unique legal research program that meets this requirement by focusing on experiential learning. Two components of experiential learning, context and connections, are explained pedagogically and specifically as to legal research curriculum.
Not a case study about teaching topic maps but at least one that I can relate to from being taught legal research, albeit before the WWW. 😉
The challenges faced by the author and her colleagues will ring true for anyone teaching at university level.
I suspect the lessons learned here are applicable more generally to teaching graduate students. Or at least that is my working premise. I am going to construct a course outline on topic maps with these and other lessons in mind.
I first saw this at Legal Informatics.