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This event will introduce you to two significant educational innovations in Law and related disciplines, namely:
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SIMulated Professional Learning Environment (SIMple)
SIMple is a digital simulation platform for use by law schools and other client-based disciplines and professions. It has been developed and funded by Osgoode Professional Development and built by Forio, a niche simulation developer. It comprises two parts: a sim engine for designing, authoring, testing, running, archiving and redeploying a sim; and a case management system that can be used by both students and academic staff, which replicates the key elements of a professional case management environment and can accommodate both real people and fictional characters. Based on earlier work in Scotland, it has undergone a successful beta test, and has been used in a course for lawyers on International Business Transactions.
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Simulated Clients (SCs)
Sim clients are lay people trained to do two things well: to represent a legal problem to a (student) lawyer as an authentic conversation in an interview, and to assess the client-facing skills of the lawyer in either formative or summative assessments. Deriving from the use of simulated patients in medical education, SCs have been trained and used in over 16 projects worldwide. Staff seminars have been held in London, Canberra, Toronto and Amsterdam.
In this international event we will show and discuss the fusion of these two approaches to professional learning. Michael Bean will demonstrate the concept and functionalities of the SIMple platform. Prof Paul Maharg will then outline the history, purpose of the Simulated Client Initiative (SCI), together with the training and use of SCs in law and business. Prof Shelley Kierstead will be using both in her Introductions to Legal Skills course in the first year of the Osgoode Hall Law School JD (the postgraduate qualification undertaken by those wishing to become lawyers in Canada). Chris Sykes of Manchester Law School will discuss the use of SIMple in a Masters course called Professionalism in Practice.
Slides:
Chris_Sykes.pdf
Paul_Maharg.pdf
Professor_Shelley_Kierstead.pdf
Full agenda and reference list:
About_the_event_-_Simulation_and_learning_in_law_&_business.pdf
Reference documents:
Ahead_of_the_curve_turning_law_students_into_lawyers.pdf
Barton_and_Westwood_-_2011_-_Developing_Professional_Character_-_Trust,_values_and_learning..pdf
Barton_et_al._-_2006_-_Valuing_What_Clients_Think_Standardized_Client_and_the_Assessment_of_Communicative_Competence,_13_C.pdf
Maharg_-_2007_-_Transforming_legal_education_learning_and_teaching_the_law_in_the_early_twenty-first_century.pdf
Maharg_-_2020_-_Same_as_it_ever_was_Second_modernity,_technocracy,_and_the_design_of_digital_legal_education.pdf
Maharg_-_Assessing_legal_professionalism_in_simulations_The_case_of_SIMPLE.pdf
Maharg_and_Yenssen_-_2022_-_Transitioning_Simulated_Client_Interviews_from_Face-to-Face_to_Online_Still_an_Entrustable_Professi.pdf
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