Simulation and technology in legal education: a systematic review and future research programme

Abstract

This chapter is a systematic review of the literature on simulations and technology in legal education. To date, there has been no reasonably comprehensive summary of the research on simulation and technology in legal education - this in spite of a growing body of evidence that games and simulations not only have positive effects on student learning, but that there are significant correlations between the use of educational technology and student engagement. The practice of systematic review generally is relatively rare in legal ecucation, in common law jurisdictions at least. Indeed systematic reviews as a whole, such as that of Mearns et al on the effectiveness of online and blended learning in the field of education and technology, are not widely available in law as a discipline; nor are they evenly distributed in law's sub-domains. Show more