Online Delivery using TWEN Westlaw Systems

Example course on youtube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wStQ7g4OCGs

Courseware TWEN – Course Management and Asynchronous Discussion Board
Courseware features allow a professor to post his personal information and syllabus, view a course roster, and interact with students in the discussion board - like a residential university provides a brick and mortar classroom for class. A student reads the professor syllabus posted in blackboard as well as on the faculty member’s webpage and program website - like when a professor posts his syllabus before a course begins. The syllabus contains the broad weekly study schedule, a list of assignments and deadlines and grading. The professor poses questions or is posed question either in the asynchronous discussion board of their chosen synchronous platform.

The program course portal is Westlaw’s TWEN ‘courseware’ – see TWEN. Each candidate that has matriculated (paid for the first semester) receives a Westlaw password that grants access to TWEN.
Lectures on MegaMeeting.com – Real Time Classes with Q&A
Attending live classes for all courses is an option of the program. An applicant may test his/her computer and internet capacity by reviewing the example classroom on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wStQ7g4OCGs

Learning Framework

The Diamond program employs a dual pedagogical approach: legal education and that of business school. The Diamond program is grounded in traditional jurisprudential legal education that is designed to:
• teach robust online research techniques
• fine-tune writing style for target audience
• correlate persuasive argumentation with citation to source and secondary authorities
• hone critical legal thinking skills

Further, the Diamond program offers the opportunity to engage with practitioner-led practicum that review procedural and filing requirements.
The program serves employers and professional association needs, and within the scope of professional employment International Taxation and Financial Services are not practiced in a vacuum but rather in relation to business operations within team contexts. Thus, the Diamond program employs business school techniques in its classroom approach:
• case studies
• problem solving approach
• group-solutions and team building

Please refer to http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/2001_3/byrnes/ for an extensive discussion regarding the development of the pedagogical approach employed based upon a intermingling of different legal pedagogical approaches across the US and abroad.