Pearly gates, ivory towers and the workplace: developing professional identities through connectivism

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This discussion explores the impact of space and place on online communities that support workplace learning and the developing legal professional. Metaphors of cyberspace from the 1990s are revisited to examine if the anticipated potential for cyberspace as “a place where we will be freed from the limitation and embarrassment of physical embodiment” (Wertheim, 1999) enhances students’ emerging professional legal identity. Siemens’ (2005) concept of connectivism is useful to consider how Law in Practice at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, might be complemented, multiplied and supported through online communities in a blending of the real and virtual.

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