SBIR Phase II: Crowd Sourcing Apprenticeship Learning: LawMeets - A Web Platform for Teaching Entrepreneurial Lawyering

SBIR 第二阶段：众包学徒学习：LawMeets - 创业律师教学网络平台

• 批准号: 1229941
• 负责人: Karl Okamoto
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: ApprenNet LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1229941&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Crowd; Sourcing

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is directed to the development of LawMeets, a web-based platform for teaching lawyering skills through virtual apprenticeships. LawMeets use an innovative pedagogical method that combines performance-based learning, algorithm-based peer-to-peer review and expert video demonstrations to replicate the benefits of high-cost, one-on-one apprenticeship learning but at low-cost and at scale. The target market for LawMeets is the quarter million novice lawyers who need to develop practical skills to become valuable members of the profession. In beta tests with hundreds of students at dozens of different law schools, LawMeets have proven to be engaging, effective and easy to use.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project lies in the role transactional lawyers play in society. Skilled "deal" lawyers are a critical ingredient in the entrepreneurial process and, therefore, essential to the economic growth that relies on a vibrant entrepreneurial eco-system. Both law schools and legal employers have long struggled with how to teach the lawyering skills that mark an entrepreneurial lawyer as a master. Law schools have launched various experiential learning initiatives, including clinical offerings and simulations. Law firms have experimented with similar training programs. While improving learning on the margin, none of these efforts has had a fundamental impact. All rely at their core on the traditional model of student-teacher interaction. Various on-line tools offer resources for acquiring substantive knowledge but lack the interactive component that leads to the development of the cognitive capacities that make up true expertise. None of the solutions offers a low-cost, scalable vehicle for tapping the reservoir of expertise found among the community of senior practitioners. The goal for LawMeets is to provide low cost "hands-on" learning at scale and to become the dominant vehicle for practical skills instruction in both law schools and law firms.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的目标是开发LawMeets，这是一个基于网络的平台，通过虚拟学徒来教授律师技能。LawMeets使用一种创新的教学方法，将基于绩效的学习，基于算法的同行评审和专家视频演示相结合，以低成本和大规模复制高成本，一对一学徒学习的好处。 LawMeets的目标市场是25万新手律师，他们需要发展实用技能，成为行业中有价值的成员。 在与数十所不同法学院的数百名学生进行的beta测试中，LawMeets已被证明具有吸引力，有效且易于使用。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于交易律师在社会中发挥的作用。 熟练的“交易”律师是创业过程中的关键因素，因此，对依赖于充满活力的创业生态系统的经济增长至关重要。 长期以来，法学院和法律的雇主都在为如何教授标志着创业律师成为大师的律师技能而苦苦挣扎。法学院推出了各种体验式学习计划，包括临床课程和模拟课程。 律师事务所也尝试过类似的培训项目。 虽然这些努力在一定程度上改善了学习，但都没有产生根本性的影响。 所有这些都依赖于传统的师生互动模式。 各种在线工具提供了获取实质性知识的资源，但缺乏互动的组成部分，导致发展构成真正专门知识的认知能力。 这些解决方案都没有提供一种低成本、可扩展的工具来挖掘高级从业人员社区中的专业知识。LawMeets的目标是大规模提供低成本的“动手”学习，并成为法学院和律师事务所实用技能教学的主要工具。