## 3. Legal Skills

1. Introduction

The project Knowledge clips legal skills aims to make improvements. By creating and making available instructional and knowledge clips on legal skills, students who write a paper, prepare a thesis plan or prepare a presentation, can receive appropriate education whenever they need it.

The aim of the project is to develop a set of knowledge clips on legal skills. Since legal skills is a collective term for various skills, they can also be taught to students separately from each other. This includes knowledge clips about writing a research plan, formulating a problem, drafting a correct and convincing argument, creating a clear structure and using sources.

From the Legal skills learning track, the teachers want to offer high-quality and even better education in a time of cutbacks in higher education. This project makes it clear to the student through the knowledge clips what the content and practice are of the different aspects of legal skills. Just when the student has to make a writing or presentation assignment, it is possible for him/her to pick up the knowledge clips again for support. As a result, lecturers do not have to give extensive instructions about the various written and oral skills during the contact hours, but can refer to the knowledge clips. This leaves more room during contact hours for, for example, professional discussions, while at the same time, thanks to the knowledge clips, extensive attention can be paid to the development of legal skills.

Moreover, uniformity with regard to legal skills within the program is guaranteed, because all lecturers use the same knowledge clips. Teachers can build on the general knowledge clips that this project aims to develop, if necessary and desirable, for example by making a subject-specific instruction clip.

2. How

The knowledge clips can be used in the different years of the Bachelor's and Master's degree program in Law and can be stacked as desired. When making the knowledge clips, we strive for broad support within the Faculty of Law, so cooperation between different departments is paramount. For example, the scripts for the knowledge clips are written in collaboration between the various departments and the knowledge clips are cross-curricular and can therefore be used in various courses, both in the bachelor's and master's phase.

Image: Snapshot while recording

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3. Results

3.1. Relationship with Framework

3.2. Lessons learned

A positive point is that the recordings have ensured cooperation between the different departments. During the process, the teachers needed support and feedback on their scripts and their PowerPoint presentations. The tips the teachers received helped them improve the script and presentation.
The teachers experienced the feedback that they received during the recordings as pleasant.

The recordings were prepared and recorded under great time pressure. Communication about the planning helps enormously. It is clear to everyone what is expected. Important points for the teachers are the recording date, discussion of the script and presentation, turnaround time of a video production.

The teachers would have liked to know what the studio looks like so they know what to expect. Especially what you can expect in terms of support during the recording.