A generic environment for integrating streaming video in legal education e-see

Law students experience difficulties in acquiring legal knowledge and in using legal knowledge when performing a legal task. To support law students in acquiring legal competence e-materials for learning the law are developed within the HYPATIA research program. HYPATIA uses a classification of e-materials for learning the law. In this paper the design of the training tool e-See is described. e-See stands for Embedded Streaming Video for Legal Problem Solving. e-See is an instructional environment for training an essential part of legal problem solving: the construction of the case description. This involves the selection and ascertaining of facts and events from real life. A major problem with selecting and ascertaining facts from a real life dispute is that it may be necessary to actually observe the facts and events in the real life situation. This is realized by integrating video in the instructional environment.