Peer to Peer Magazine

September 2013

The quarterly publication of the International Legal Technology Association

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Legal MOOCs: An Alternative to Current Attorney Technology Training other short fact-based documentation will serve as a means to answer future student questions and make training more effective. • Analytics and student feedback are crucial to the ongoing success of Legal MOOCs. Data gathered on the use of Legal MOOC websites should include the amount of time spent on the site per user and per session, the most commonly accessed links, opt-out statistics and more. Student feedback should be solicited at the end of each course via an online form that briefly gathers meaningful data focused on training effectiveness and student experience. As each firm's training culture can shift with incoming associate classes, this data becomes extremely important. most medium and large firms have in place, and reduce non-billable time. Legal MOOCs provide these benefits and more, all while giving attorneys greater control and individual support during legal technology training. Today's attorneys expect the modern law firm to provide legal technology education on par with the educational resources available throughout the Internet. Legal MOOCs would allow a law firm's attorney technology training program to meet, if not exceed, those expectations. Joseph J. Schwartz is a Senior Business Systems Analyst for a major New York law firm. Prior to For Firms of All Sizes Legal MOOCs scale to firm size efficiently. They can begin with as few as one or two lessons, with resources and content being added with each additional cycle of students. They provide economies of scale for firms with multiple offices. They leverage technologies Rethink Intranets & Extranets working in software development, he created dozens of training programs and provided hundreds of technical training classes for law firms and other businesses as a trainer and training consultant. He can be contacted at jjxschwartz@gmail.com. How's integrating WorkSite content into SharePoint working out for you? It may be time to RETHINK how you manage your SharePoint sites. Ascera for SharePoint Simplify secure collaboration over SharePoint intranets and extranets • Publish WorkSite content directly to SharePoint without IT support • Synchronize WorkSite and SharePoint content • Automate provisioning and create standardized folders on demand • Unify the user experience – regardless of device – Solutions for WorkSite, SharePoint, email, and mobile working in SharePoint 2013 www.prosperoware.com/rethink © 2013 Prosperoware, LLC Peer to Peer 17

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