eLearning: a paradigm shift for law school teaching

There's a fascinating article in Law.com by Diane Donahoe, chairwoman of the Legal Research & Writing program at Georgetown. While many law professors debate whether to allow laptops in the classroom, Donahoe has fully embraced eLearning and has dramatically changed the way she teaches to meet the needs of a generation of law students who learn in new ways - she calls them "digital students". Her courses are entirely paperless, and the online "textbook" she authored (which replaces the traditional paper law school casebook) integrates nonlinear text, interactivity, immediate feedback and multimedia with rich legal content that fits this generation of students' digital learning style.