TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing the Benefits of Online Learning in Higher Education and its Impact on Law Students
AU - de la Asuncion Pari-Bedoya, Ilda Nadia Monica
AU - Vargas-Murillo, Alfonso Renato
AU - de Jesús Guevara-Soto, Francisco
AU - Jiménez-Palacios, Ricardo
AU - Ypanaque-Pereira, Isai Luis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Ilda Nadia Monica de la Asuncion Pari-Bedoya et al; published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.
PY - 2023/11
Y1 - 2023/11
N2 - The present study aims to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of online learning, focusing on the importance of understanding how legal education can benefit from online learning. The problem under investigation resided in asking what the benefits of online learning for legal education are and how it impacts law students. For this study, a systematic literature review was conducted in order to recollect and analyze the existing literature available regarding legal education and online learning. This process entailed a comprehensive search across academic databases such as Scopus, IEEE Xplore, and ProQuest, with the help of keywords and research criteria in order to enhance the study’s result and establish a collection of literature that would help the study’s research questions regarding legal education and its impact on law students. The main hypothesis established that law students are capable of fully embracing online learning thanks to today’s level of adaptability, and while the results show that a vast number of students have access to mobile technology and are aware of the benefits of online learning, law schools need to gradually implement this methodology in order to start experiencing mentioned benefits and have an effective applicability of this methods in their teaching programs.
AB - The present study aims to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of online learning, focusing on the importance of understanding how legal education can benefit from online learning. The problem under investigation resided in asking what the benefits of online learning for legal education are and how it impacts law students. For this study, a systematic literature review was conducted in order to recollect and analyze the existing literature available regarding legal education and online learning. This process entailed a comprehensive search across academic databases such as Scopus, IEEE Xplore, and ProQuest, with the help of keywords and research criteria in order to enhance the study’s result and establish a collection of literature that would help the study’s research questions regarding legal education and its impact on law students. The main hypothesis established that law students are capable of fully embracing online learning thanks to today’s level of adaptability, and while the results show that a vast number of students have access to mobile technology and are aware of the benefits of online learning, law schools need to gradually implement this methodology in order to start experiencing mentioned benefits and have an effective applicability of this methods in their teaching programs.
KW - Legal education
KW - law students
KW - online learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85179409504&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18421/TEM124-45
DO - 10.18421/TEM124-45
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85179409504
SN - 2217-8309
VL - 12
SP - 2333
EP - 2338
JO - TEM Journal
JF - TEM Journal
IS - 4
ER -