Harkirandeep Kaur is working as an Assistant Professor of Law in the Department of Laws, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab (India).
Teaching Law in Times of Crisis: The Roadmap for India
Abstract:
The Covid-19 pandemic in India has given set back to the education system. Due to sudden lockdown in the country, the educational institutions shifted to the online mode of teaching and work from home like strategies. The situation being novel, the law schools and law teachers including students were not familiar with technology. There is need for academic preparedness during such times of crisis. The immediate action plan would be to use some of the ICT tools in our traditional classroom teaching. New pedagogy has to be evolved for teaching law. Flipped classroom teaching has to be adopted. Short videos prepared by teachers can be used by the students. There are various sources for collecting e-content like OER, YouTube etc. The students also need to be imparted presentation skills in virtual classrooms. The teachers need to act as facilitators in the technology driven education. The e-content for virtual classroom can be created on different software’s like Screencastify, audacity, e-tutorial etc. Then e-content can be easily stored and shared on tools like Google drive, dropbox. The e-content can be disseminated through Moodle, Swayam and Blackboard etc. These are the certain strategies which can be used for teaching law in the novel ways.