The document discusses simulation design and learning through simulations. It provides an example of SIMPLE, an open-source online simulation environment that allows students to simulate professional practice. The document also discusses a personal injury negotiation project conducted with law students, including how it was implemented, what students learned from it, and what they would have done differently.

1. ‘ There is no spoon’: simulation design and practice Professor Paul Maharg Glasgow Graduate School of Law

5. Standard classroom c.1908. Would you like to learn about measurement and volume this way? Thanks to Mike Sharples, http://tinyurl.com/6bzdgx

6. … o r this way? (Dewey’s Laboratory School, U. of Chicago, 1901), http://tinyurl.com/6onvjp

7. Would you like to learn about history and town planning this way?

8. … o r by building a table-top town for a social life history project? (Dewey’s Lab School, http://tinyurl.com/59c93q )

10. E.L. Thorndike John Dewey 1. Educational psychologist Philosopher & educationalist 2. Theoretician & experimentalist Theoretician and practical implementer 3. Explored the dyadic relationship between mind & the world Interested in the arc between experience & the world 4. Adopted as precursor of a behaviourist approach to learning: assessment-led; laws of effect, recency, repetition Pragmatist approach to learning: prior experience, ways of contextual knowing; democracy & education 5. Emphasised teaching strategies Emphasised learning ecologies 6. Followed by: Watson, Skinner, Gagné; outcomes, competence & instructional design (ID) movements. Followed by: Bruner, Kilpatrick, standards movement, Constructivist tradition.

11. signature pedagogies (Lee Shulman) Sullivan, W.M., Colby, A., Wegner, J.W., Bond, L., Shulman, L.S. (2007) Educating Lawyers. Preparation for the Profession of Law, Jossey-Bass, p. 24

12. Transforming Legal Education: four key themes

18. large-scale implementation in disciplines Discipline Degree programme Institution Architecture BSc (Hons) / March, year 3 Strathclyde U. (1) Management Science BA (Hons), year 1 Strathclyde U. (1) Social Work MA (Hons), year 2/3 Strathclyde U. (1) Law LLB, year 1 Glamorgan U. (1) Law LLB, year 2/3 Stirling U. (2) Law LLB, year 3 Warwick U. (1) Law LLB, year 3 West of England U. (1) Law Diploma in Legal Practice, p/g Strathclyde U. (6)

29. PI project: tempo & complexity

30. PI project: tempo & complexity

43. compare ALIAS... ALIAS – A rdcalloch L egal I nformation & A dvice S ervice – i e simulation only, on closed intranet, with static content, product-focussed, not process-focussed