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elearn Magazine: Closing the Gap

elearn Magazine: Closing the Gap A professor from the University of Nottingham Law School in the U.K. recently stood at a lectern before University of Dallas, Texas, pre-law students. He suggested a role-playing session, assigning a student to play the part of lawyer, while he played judge. The student relished the chance to strut his stuff as a trial lawyer, and at one point passionately approached the “bench” to hand the judge a piece of evidence. But this wasn’t possible. Though the student could see a three-dimensional image of the judge, look him in the eye and converse with him, his professor was actually thousands of miles away--in Nottingham.

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