1. Tuning and Continuing Education: ITTIG’s Activity
LEFIS-WG3
Tuning and Continuing Education: ITTIG’s Activity
R. Nannucci ITTIG-CNR
Florence - Italy
Malta, 8 April 2006

2. Courses for Public Officers
1. Legal Informatics
2. XML within the Nir Project
Malta, 8 April 2006

3. Legal Informatics Subject Area
Tools and search strategies for accessing on-line legal information such as legislation (national and local), case-law and doctrine
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4. Legal Informatics Degree Profiles Law Political Science Engineering
Humanities
Malta, 8 April 2006

5. Legal Informatics Learning Outcomes and Competences
Knowledge of legal information sources available on-line
Capability of retrieving legal information in national and regional databanks
Acquisition of search methodologies specific to work demands and personal needs
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6. Legal Informatics Workload and ECTS
- Intensive courses (3-5 full-time days) with practical training sessions
- Credits as possibility to go up the ladder
Malta, 8 April 2006

7. Legal Informatics Learning Using ICT facilities Teaching
Traditional methodology by experts
+ online training sessions
Assessment
Final Evaluation Test (MCQ)
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8. Legal Informatics Quality Enhancement
Improvement of ICT facilities (rarely adequate) in Italian PA
Greater use of e-learning tools
Periodical evaluation of personnel updating needs
Detailed programming of personnel permanent updating teaching sessions
Malta, 8 April 2006

9. XML Course within the Nir Project
All PA (60) of the NIR Project were to standardize the representation of their legal information in a structured way through the application of a markup language, XML and its specific document type definitions (DTDs)
All PA personnel (local and regional administrations) were involved in updating courses on XML
a teaching module relating to the main issues of the XML language was developed by ITTIG using hypertext instructions to facilitate this type of education
Malta, 8 April 2006
ITTIG-CNR

10. XML within the Nir Project
Subject Area
General concepts of the XML markup language (XML DTDs and URN standards) and exercising on its practical application in the PA documentary and legislative activities
Malta, 8 April 2006

11. XML within the Nir Project
Degree Profiles
Law
Political Science
Engineering
Humanities
Malta, 8 April 2006

12. XML within the Nir Project
Learning Outcomes and Competences
Knowledge for applying Nir standards to PA materials and documentation
Knowledge of the legislation structure
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13. XML within the Nir Project
Workload
Small classes (12 persons) of intensive courses (2-4 days) with practical applications held by experts
2. Application of an e-Learning tool built ad hoc for practical use and autonomous learning
The tool includes various components:
12 units, subdivided into more short lessons
texts of the lessons into which the disciplinary domain was subdivided, presented and organised in hypertext form
multimedia material (videos, animations, sound files, interactive graphics of relevant legal or technical procedures)
Malta, 8 April 2006
ITTIG-CNR

14. XML within the Nir Project
ECTs
Certificate of attendance
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15. XML within the Nir Project
Learning & Teaching
Traditional teaching methodology + application of an e-learning tool
electronic notebooks for stimulating the user’s cognitive development
exercises, also of an interactive kind, for providing the user with tools for personal evaluation of the level of learning she/he has reached;
search engine, with weighted terms, using the information retrieval vector model
online animated help to make the software use more user friendly
Malta, 8 April 2006
ITTIG-CNR

16. XML within the Nir Project
Assessment
Final evaluation through practical exercises applying the XML standards to legislative drafts
Specific satisfaction questionnaires filled by course users (longer and practical-oriented courses; periodical repetition of practical sessions)
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17. XML Course
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18. XML Course
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ITTIG-CNR

19. XML Course
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20. XML Course
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21. XML Course
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22. XML Course
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ITTIG-CNR

23. XML Course
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24. Conclusions Bar Associations lawyers business consultants notaries
judges
Public Officers
national
local
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