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Mixed Media Teaching of Law and Information Technology Down Under

Wayne Rumbles
School of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand
wayner@waikato.ac.nz

Abstract: Law and Information Technology is a fourth year optional course in the School of Law at the University of Waikato, and was ideally suited to being taught using a mixed media teaching approach; the course is taught partly by traditional face to face lectures and partly by online delivery. The online delivery was through a course website which was intertwined with Class Forum (Web-Crossing), an interactive software discussion package. This paper will focus on the development of the course, focusing on the introduction of new teaching methods, the pedagogic underpinnings and the student’s reaction to those methodologies