Ratio Juris (Jul 2016)

Incorporation of ICT: a complementary strategy for training attorneys

  • Jorge Enrique Gallego Vásquez,
  • Mónica María Córdoba Castrillón,
  • Angélica María Correa Correa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24142/raju.v11n23a5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 23
pp. 125 – 153

Abstract

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The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the training of lawyers in Remington University Corporation, is a missionary purpose that combines institutional experience in distance education and virtual education in other areas of knowledge, with The experience of the faculty of legal sciences in the training of lawyers in face-to-face modality that, based on the initiatives of some teachers and the disposition of the Moodle platform, develop specific activities, but that do not form an integral part of an institutional policy that allows the intensive use of ICT for the optimization of the educational teaching process. The research project on incorporation of ICT in the training of lawyers, which has already produced a review article on how this topic has been developed in Colombia and Latin America, makes a diagnosis of the use of ICT in the academic community of the law program, which includes students and teachers and establishes the use of devices and Internet for general purposes and for training, whose results are evidenced in this article. Finally, because of the diagnosis and the investigative findings, is made a didactic strategy for the incorporation of ICT in the training of Lawyers and the curricular design of a teacher training course for this purpose, as an investigative contribution for the Remington University Corporation.

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