Overview

Welcome!

We invite you to explore our resources for teaching dispute resolution skills as professional competencies in law and medicine. Law students, lawyers and health care professionals can use the online modules to learn or practice skills.

For free access to the online modules, go to the uOttawa Virtual Campus https://ottawau.blackboard.com and follow these instructions:

  1. Scroll to Available languages and choose In English.
  2. Click the Preview as Guest link at the bottom of the page.
  3. Select Dispute Resolution for Lawyers or Promoting Cooperation and Managing Conflict in Health Care under My courses.

The video clips Law and Medicine are overviews of our blended learning programs.

The four examples describe how we blend face-to face classroom activities with interactive online modules: Example 1 demonstrates piquing interest and a before and after class resource; in Example 2, the Shakespearean Aside skit motivates further study and practice; Example 3 demonstrates a series of activities that build in complexity; Example 4 targets a specific learning problem.

How

How We Use Blended Learning

Classroom-based active and experiential learning is combined with readings and web-based practice cycles. Activities using small-group tasks, role plays, simulations, demonstrations and facilitated discussions are structured to have participants actively engage in self-reflection on abstract principles and then apply them to new situations. The web-based activities are assigned both before and after classroom activities to teach theory and to reinforce the skills.

The Law program uses substantive law drawn from first-year subjects as the context for real client problems. Several independent learning projects are included in the course work.

The Medical program uses hypothetical situations arising in an academic health-care setting constructed from interviews, articles and past program participants' suggestions. Participants also construct their own examples or hypothetical situations of when and how they can use the skills and concepts presented.

Example 1