Even though it’s only the end of October, it’s not too early to start planning for final exam time. Here at CALI, our usage statistics go through the roof starting around Thanksgiving every year. Accompanying this are lots of questions from students with registration issues, questions about authorization code contacts and lost passwords.
The week of October 21-27, 2013 is Open Access Week. This week is an opportunity for those of us involved in the creation and use of scholarly works to learn about the benefits of Open Access. CALI is a long time supporter of Open Access and
Please mark your calendars for the following webinars on CALI and legal education related topics. Webinars will be on Tuesdays at 11 am Central, with a live encore performance at 2pm Central on Fridays. They are all free to attend and will be 15-30 minutes in length, depending on topics. These will be live and you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions.
As you (hopefully) know, CALI lessons are written and peer reviewed by law professors and librarians. But did you know that you can still write your own lesson and publish them to our website? We don’t intentionally keep this a secret, but for some reason people are always surprised to learn this!
The CALI Excellence for the Future Award®, often shortened to “The CALI Award” or referred to as “I CALI’d a Class”, is given to the student who receives the highest award in a law school course. Awards are given at the discretion of the faculty and in rare cases two awards can be given for the same course.
We’ll be doing a series of mini webinars – only about 15 minutes long – on a variety of CALI tools and topics. They’ll be every Tuesday and Friday in September at 3pm Eastern, 2pm Central, 1pm Mountain and Noon Pacific. Here’s the schedule and registration links:
Do you have questions about CALI? I HAVE ANSWERS.
eLangdell® Press, an open publishing initiative of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is seeking proposals for full-length academic law casebooks or chapters.
CALI and CALI lessons are not just for final exam preparation. CALI is an all-year partner. We even have materials useful for incoming 1Ls during their first few weeks of school!
There are many opportunities for change in legal education. An area ripe for innovation is the law school casebook. Technological advances have made epublishing feasible for just about anyone, the content is primarily public domain legal information and skyrocketing prices mean that students’ finances are impacted immediately upon purchase.
CALI is known for many things…innovation in legal education, a commitment to providing quality and value to our membership and creating tools that increase access to justice, to name a few. Among certain segments of our membership, we are also known for something else:
As you (hopefully) know, CALI lessons are written and peer reviewed by law professors. But did you know that you can still write your own lesson and publish them to our website? We don’t intentionally keep this a secret, but for some reason people are always surprised to learn this!
We here at CALI are very excited and proud to announce that our Director of Curriculum Development, Deb Quentel, has been awarded a Fastcase 50 award for 2013. The Fastcase 50 is given to the law’s “smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.”
