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Equity and Efficiency: Design of a dispute resolution unit in the QUT Law School
Donna Cooper
Lecturer | Law Schoo | Faculty of Law
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Donna Cooper is a lecturer within the Law School where she teaches family law, dispute resolution and human rights units. She has been engaged in a large first year unit where she designed an interactive workbook to promote active student learning.
She has worked with ETV to develop a video for law students on how to prepare and present an effective oral presentation. She has delivered papers on assessment at the Evaluations and Assessment Conference and at the HERDSA Conference.
Donna is currently a committee member of the Law Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee and was awarded a Faculty of Law Teaching Excellence Award in 2005. |
Project Summary
This project is about an undergraduate elective law unit that is designed to teach, effectively and cost efficiently, dispute resolution skills, such as negotiation and mediation.
The unit, “Dispute Resolution and Non-Adversarial Practice” will run for the first time in first semester 2007. It has been designed with equity in mind so that both internal and external students can develop their dispute resolution skills. Teaching and learning will be delivered by way of interactive lectorials which will be taped and audio streamed on the unit's online teaching website.
The unit will utilise experiential learning in that students will have the option of attending and participating in skills workshops. Both peer feedback and reflective journals will be used to assist students attending the workshops to develop their dispute resolution skills. Students unable to attend the workshops will complete an alternative form of assessment by watching a video-taped mediation or negotiation, critiquing the skills that they observe, and reflecting on these.
Download the project presentation.
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