{"id":64800,"date":"2018-10-03T09:17:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=64800"},"modified":"2018-10-03T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:20:07","slug":"american-bar-association-doubles-online-learning-hours-national-jurist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/10\/03\/american-bar-association-doubles-online-learning-hours-national-jurist\/","title":{"rendered":"American Bar Association doubles online learning hours [National Jurist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.coverstand.com\/52741\/521323\/8526434acf7295bb6dcf2114c8e7a5ede8f1b592.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ABA doubles online learning hours <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; page 6 of 40 from the <em>National Jurist<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Law schools will have the option of offering\u00a0up to 30 hours of online learning in their J.D. programs, doubling the previous limit of 15, under a new measure approved by the ABA in August. Also, for the first time, first year students will be permitted to take online classes \u2014 as many as 10 hours. The ABA has allowed a small number of variances in the past for schools to offer more robust online offerings. Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minn., launched the nation\u2019s first hybrid J.D. program in 2015. Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles and Syracuse University College of Law in upstate New York have received ABA approval for similar programs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Such programs have been applauded\u00a0because they allow for more non-traditional students to get law school educations. Students are only required to be on campus for short periods of time. That means they don\u2019t have to live near the law school.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>In<span style=\"color: #339966;\"> 1998<\/span> Davenport University Online began offering <span style=\"color: #339966;\">100% online-based courses<\/span>.<\/strong> I joined them 3 years later, and I was part of a group of people who took DUO to the place where &#8212; when I left DUO in March 2007, we were offering ~50% of the total credit hours of the university in a 100% online-based format. Again, that was 15-20 years ago. DUO was joined by many other online-based programs from other community colleges and universities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">So what gives w\/ the legal education area?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Well&#8230;the American Bar Association (ABA) comes to mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The ABA has been very restrictive on the use of online learning. Mounting pressure surely must be on the ABA to allow all kinds of variances in this area. Given the need for legal education to better deal with the exponential pace of technological innovation, the ABA has a responsibility to society to up their game and become far more responsive to the needs of law students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABA doubles online learning hours &#8212; page 6 of 40 from the National Jurist Excerpt: Law schools will have the option of offering\u00a0up to 30 hours of online learning in their J.D. programs, doubling the previous limit of 15, under a new measure approved by the ABA in August. Also, for the first time, first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,174,86,209,72,286,346,3,825,285,62,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-learning","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-learning","category-distance-education","category-higher-education","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-online-learning","category-pace-of-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64805,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64800\/revisions\/64805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}