This year, the center has made a number of offerings available to the public via the Internet.
"We've basically done them as experimental enterprises to find out how you teach over the web," says Charles R. Nesson, a center co-director who serves on the workgroup.
Nesson, like his counterparts at other schools, is concerned about quality and audience.
"If you just focus on the outside audience, you run the risk of draining
resources and faculty talent away," Nesson says. "It becomes something very much akin to correspondence courses, which frankly have never been a form of education that has had a quality trajectory."
"Serving an audience that competes with our undergraduate degrees doesn't make a lot of sense.... Serving people who have graduated makes a whole lot more sense," he adds.
This year, for the first time, HLS offered official continuing legal education online. One lecture and discussion series including this component was taught by HLS professor Terry Fisher, a co-director of the center. He taught a seven-week offering on intellectual property in cyberspace.
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