Inter-Active e-Learning at the Copenhagen Law Faculty: "Carrot & Stick"

Beskrivelse

At the Faculty of Law at University of Copenhagen several courses have implemented learning activities in the LMS to support the learning in the classroom/lecture hall. This has been obtained by a combination of several factors:
a plan for dissemination of knowledge, an agreement of how to use the LMS organized by a local coordinator (a professor), the use of a limited number of templates to design the courses supporting the didactic of the courses and finally a combination of various learning elements/objects.

One example is the course "Comparative and Commercial law" (10 ECTS) which accepts 25-30 students where appx. 75% are foreign exchange students (many of them not familiar with University of Copenhagen when they begin the course). The course offers 4 on-site class-hours pr. week (34 hours in all).

The "stick technique" in this course ensures that the students become familiar and confident not only with each other and the LMS but also with the ability to prepare for and make a presentation on a given topic.

The "carrot" underlying this approach is that the course activities are designed to meet the students needs. Although students are not required to do the exercises (they do not "count" as part of the course grade), the exercises can help facilitate understanding (provided they are done on time, which leads to better-prepared and more active students in class). 

Finally, the e-exam ensures that the students knowledge is examined and skills are trained in a modern learning environment and assessed within the same frame. The result is a course with a high satisfaction level amongst the students.