Manuel David Masseno Vaasa, 24 April 2009

The LEFIS Law & ICT Virtual Campus:Sharing the experience of the Polytechnic of Beja

Starting Points:

I – Common Characters of Teaching Law at Other Schools:

Addressees: Students of Legal Courses enrolled in Other

Programmes;

Consequences: Problems of Legitimation; Lack of Synergies regarding Competences and Skills; Enhancing of the Pragmatic Aspects of Learning;

Starting Points:

II – 8 Years of Experimentation:A course of Computer Law, at a Computer

Engineering Degree;Page of Contents in html (Example):

Starting Points:

II – 8 Years of Experimentation:Weblog:

Social Network:

Developments:

I – Objectives (Competences and skills):

1. Awareness and knowledge of the fundamentals of the various regulations concerning the Information Society in Portugal, in the European and International frameworks;

2. Expertise regarding the technics of Compartive Law; and,

3. Interpretation and application of legal texts in context, as well as research of legal information using ICT.

Developments:

II – Tools and Methods

Full and immediate access to the needed contents, Domestic, International and European: Statutes; Case Law; Doctrine; News, by the way of Blogs;

Teaching focused on daily reality and on the relevant Case Law: Previous availability of all the learning materials, in

full text; Debates, both in place and by chat;

Developments:

III – Assessment

Based in the individual solving of Cases;

Both Non Presencial and Presencial;

Complemented by the participation in Fora, with a more theoretic nature and base on themes introduced by the Lecturer;

Always Electronically;

Developments:

Platform:

Developments:

Also With a Version in English:

Currently:

Turning experience into Good Practices;

Implementing the model in every course of Law of the Polytechnic;

Building of an extension of the Campus at our Moodle Platform, but now with an simplified access;

Hosting the Pages of courses of other Portuguese Speaking Higher Education Institutions, namely from Brazil and in Mozambique;

Currently:

Currently: