Abstract

Law students internationally suffer from a high level of psychological distress compared with the general and student populations, and anecdotal evidence suggests that students developing skills without adequate support experience significant stress and anxiety. This article considers an initiative at one Australian law school to develop a degree-wide structured online skills development programme as a means to both improve student skills acquisition and reduce student stress. The project implements, through the use of learning technology, the principles proposed by McKinney for making small changes to law school teaching, informed by self-efficacy theory, which can have powerful results.

Citation

Hewitt, A. & Stubbs, M. (2017). Supporting Law Students' Skills Development Online--A Strategy to Improve Skills and Reduce Student Stress?. Research in Learning Technology, 25(1),. Retrieved August 6, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/191354/.

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Keywords

• Anxiety
• Coping
• educational technology
• focus groups
• Foreign Countries
• Law Students
• Learning Modules
• Likert Scales
• online courses
• Program Effectiveness
• Self Efficacy
• Skill Development
• Stress Management
• Stress Variables
• student attitudes
• Student Surveys
• Technology Uses in Education
• Well Being