E-Learning Opportunities and Challenges for Legal Education in Rural Victoria

Victoria , Inquiry into the Extent and Nature of Disadvantage and Inequity in Rural and Regional Victoria: Final Report: Rural and Regional Committee, Parlt Paper No 385 (October 2010).

See Coverdale Richard , Postcode Justice: Rural and Regional Disadvantage in the Administration of the Law in Victoria (Deakin University, 2011); Rolf Gerritsen, The Management of Government and its Consequences for Service Delivery in Regional Australia' in Pritchard Bill McManus Philip (eds), Land of Discontent: The Dynamics of Change in Rural and Regional Australia (UNSW Press, 2000) 51–69, for discussions on the influence of market forces and New Public Management on spatial inequality in rural communities.

Ibid.

The annual Law Week education offerings provide examples of the kinds of community education available to city-based and regional Victorians. See <http://www.everyday-law.org.au/law-week-2014#quicktabs-law_week_events=0>.

Productivity Commission, Access to Justice Arrangements Inquiry Report: Overview, Key points. No 72, 5 September 2014, 2.

Coverdale , above n 2, 90–91.

Dracup Mary , Linking Law: Practical Guidelines for Delivering Law to Rural Victoria Using E-learning Technologies (Centre for Rural Regional Law and Justice, School of Law, Deakin University, 2014), <http://www.deakin.edu.au/data/assets/pdf_file/0018/291024/Linking-Law-final-online.pdf>.

For information on rural digital health and health education innovations, see <http://health.vic.gov.au/telehealth/>.

Access to Justice Advisory Committee, Access to Justice – An Action Plan (AGPS, 1994).

Coumarelos Christine , Legal Australia-Wide Survey: Legal Need in Victoria (Law and Justice Foundation of NSW, 2012).

Ibid.

Ibid.

Law Institute of Victoria, Continuing Professional Development Rules (2008) <http://www.liv.asn.au/PDF/Practising/Professional-Standards/Acts/2008CPDRulesLIV.aspx>.

Australian Communications and Media Authority (‘ACMA’), Regional Australia in the Digital Economy (14 August 2014) <http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/engage-blogs/engage-blogs/Research-snapshots/Regional-Australia-in-the-digital-economy>.

See Telstra's coverage map at <http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/coverage-networks/our-coverage/>.

ACMA, above n 14.

Victorian Legal Assistance Forum, Best Practice Guidelines for the Development and Maintenance of Online Community Legal Information in Victoria (29 April 2014) <http://www.victorialawfoundation.org.au/sites/default/files/attachments/Guidelines%20-%20Final%20%28140516%29.pdf>.

Coverdale , above n 2, 90–91.

Bates Tony , Technology, E-learning and Distance Education (Routledge, 2nd ed, 2005). Also see Macpherson Allan , ‘E-learning: Reflections and Evaluation of Corporate Programmes’ (2004) 7(3) Human Resource Development International 295–313.

Dick Walter Carey Lou Carey James O , The Systematic Design of Instruction (Longman, 5th ed, 2001). This is not the only instructional design method, but it is relatively simple to understand and similar approaches are widely used in vocational, TAFE and university education throughout Australia.

Anderson Lorin W , A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Longman, 2001).

Coverdale , above n 2. See also Kyle Louise Coverdale Richard Powers Trevor , Conflicts of Interest in Victorian Rural and Regional Legal Practice (Centre for Rural Regional Law and Justice, Deakin University, 2014).

Lave Jean Wenger Etienne , Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Cambridge University Press, 1991).