Online Basic Legal Training Program -
Weekly Interactions with Instructors
We are very proud of our Online Basic Legal Training Course and the excellent reviews it has received from individuals in the legal field. Our intent was and is to make this an outstanding program for students wanting to get into the field of legal support and for those already in the field who want to broaden their knowledge and perhaps even prepare for the ALS (Accredited Legal Secretary) national certification.
Students like our course because of the way we conduct it, and most don't realize that we are using the latest pedagogical approach in its delivery, based on Bloom's Taxonomy and his work on cognitive domains. Essentially, we let students work during the week on the knowledge, comprehension, and application levels. This enables our instructor to use each weekly conference for discussions in the domains of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Now all of that is a lot of words, but what this means is that one of the great strengths of our course is the weekly discussion with the instructor during a conference call. The discussion can focus on the more interesting aspects of the law because students already have some grasp of the basics. There are many deliverers of "online education" who do not build this level of interaction into their programs, and many students participate in distance learning with little or no contact with a real person. Our "person" is both real and a lawyer.
Given the importance of this to our program and to the benefit of our students, we have set the weekly discussion time for each group of students starting each month. Frankly, it is too much, considering the number of students in our program, to have individual discussions, and the group discussions are more interesting anyway.
If you can make most of the times (with no more than three weekly instructor conference call absences out of the sixteen), then start. Note, however, that for each absence you will be asked to submit a 200 word paper discussing items you missed in doing the review questions, taking the chapter quiz, or interacting with the case studies and vignettes that are posted for that week's assignment.
If you absolutely cannot make the weekly discussion time set for this class, then you may need to wait for next month's start and enroll then. Give us a call (Rosemary Cangelosi at 321-939-7604) and let us know what works for you. We'll try our best to accommodate your needs.
We have provided you a somewhat lengthy analysis and discussion about the "why" of our weekly instructor conference calls and do hope that you can see their importance to our program.