Abstract:
When the country was placed into lockdown in March 2020, law teachers around New Zealand were thrown into emergency online teaching. Over a year later, and after experiencing three different bouts of forced teaching online, what lessons can be drawn from this experience? What worked well and can be integrated into our everyday, non-emergency teaching? What can be used in future emergency teachings? What should be avoided at all costs? Drawing on my experience as a teacher and an administrator over the last year, I will explore the technological changes that COVID forced on law teaching and assessment. I will argue that, while many teachers have been forced to introduce technological change which will continue in post-pandemic times, the past year has also highlighted many of the benefits of in-class teaching and assessment that we had perhaps we had all previously taken for granted.
