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Faculty Scholarship. 264. In January 2015, William Mitchell College of Law will launch the first American Bar Association (ABA)-approved, on-campus/ online J.D. program to further the college's mission: to provide accessible, experiential, rigorous training for tomorrow's lawyers.
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- Development of The Hybrid Program
- The College Develops A Plan For Harnessing Technology to Further Its Mission
- The Aba Section Council Grants The College A Variance from Its Standards
- How The Hybrid Program Works
- Foundations of The Hybrid Program
William Mitchell College of Law is an independent, ABA-approved law school in St. Paul, Minnesota. The college was founded as a night law program in 1900 by lawyers and judges who sought to make a legal education more accessible, particularly to working professionals, young people, and those with families. The school won the ABA’s approval in 1938 ...
About four years ago, the college’s faculty began exploring ways in which the school might take advantage of technological advances to further its mission of offering accessible and practical legal education. To that end, the college developed a plan for a “hybrid” J.D. program, combining intensive on-campus programming with online instruction. Imp...
The Accreditation Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education approved the variance in September 2013, which was followed by Section Council approval in December 2013. Though modest, this change allows for a much more innovative and effective use of e-learning tools in the context of a hybrid or “blended” program and reduces dramatically the am...
As its name suggests, the hybrid program combines on-campus and online instruction. The four-year part-time program has two distinctive features.
We understand that there will be resistance to the expanded use of e-learning technology in legal education and that initially there may be skepticism regarding whether the hybrid program can provide the same quality of professional training as more traditional options. However, there are good grounds for confidence that the students who graduate f...
Oct 6, 2015 · William Mitchell offers students in the Hybrid Program our traditional J.D. curriculum or the option of focusing on Indian law or law and business. live chats with professors and...
Jul 14, 2014 · Read William Mitchell Hybrid Program by William Mitchell College of Law on Issuu and browse thousands of other publications on our platform. Start ...
Jan 12, 2015 · By this weekend, they'll be heading home. They're part of the first "hybrid" class at the William Mitchell College of Law — which means they'll be doing most of their coursework online....
Dec 20, 2013 · William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn., has answered the call. The ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has approved the school’s plan to...
Dec 17, 2013 · December 17, 2013. Law School Hybrid. William Mitchell College of Law receives a rare approval from the American Bar Association to experiment with online education. By Carl Straumsheim.
