Freda is the Head of the Diploma Centre at the Education
Department, Law Society of Ireland. She has overall responsibility
for all aspects of diploma courses including collaboration with
colleagues in terms of syllabus design and workshop design.
She qualified as a lawyer in Ireland in 1997 and worked in
private practice for many years. Her areas of practice included
criminal defence litigation and general practice, and she worked
for a period in the Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC). She is
qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and also qualified as
an Attorney at Law in New York State. She has a masters degree in
Law from Kings College London, a masters degree from Trinity
College Dublin in Education and Technology and a masters degree in
Management from the Smurfit Business School, University College
Dublin.
She is a Ph.D. candidate and her research work focuses on
professional legal education and professional identity, ethics,
professionalism and the lawyering role. She is the founding member
of the Irish Rule of Law Initiative group Irish Lawyers Legal
Education Partnership Project South East Asia and has taught in
Vietnam a number of times with Babsea- Cle.
DIPLOMA MOOC TEAM
FREDA gREALy, sOLICITOR, hEAD OF DIPLOMA CENTRE
LAw sOCIETy OF IRELAND DIPLOMA CENTRE
www.lawsociety.ie/diplomacentre UNDERsTANDINg ThE LAw IN A DIgITAL
AgE (MOOC) DIPLOMA MOOC TEAM 1
John is a course leader in the Diploma Centre at the Education
Department of the Law Society of Ireland. He has responsibility for
the Diploma Centres Diploma in Law which was nominated for best new
postgraduate course at the 2015 GradIreland awards. He leads the
Diploma Centres Street Law volunteer programme, a collaboration
with Georgetown University, which places trainee solicitors in
secondary schools to teach Street Law to transition year students
through its unique learner-centered methodology.
He has responsibility for a number of diploma courses designed
for practising solicitors where his role includes curriculum
development workshop design and administrative management of the
courses. He currently manages the Diploma in Corporate Law &
Governance, Certificate in Conveyancing and Property Law and a new
Certificate in Company Secretarial Law & Practice which
launches in June 2015.
A dual qualified solicitor and teacher he joined the Law Society
in 2013 after a number of years working in second level education.
A graduate of UCD and UCC, John qualified as a solicitor in 2008
and is currently undertaking a Masters in Applied eLearning at DIT
which involves research into the value of peer assessment in online
courses.
JOhN LUNNEy, sOLICITOR, COURsE LEADER, DIPLOMA CENTRE
LAw sOCIETy OF IRELAND DIPLOMA CENTRE
www.lawsociety.ie/diplomacentre UNDERsTANDINg ThE LAw IN A DIgITAL
AgE (MOOC) DIPLOMA MOOC TEAM 2
Rebecca has a strong background in sales and marketing and has a
wealth of experience with start up businesses in particular
accelerating growth, customer acquisition and best practice. She
most recently served as a Senior Business Development Manager with
Boards.ie, Irelands largest online discussion website.
Rebecca joined the Law Society in 2013 and is responsible for
digital projects of the Diploma Centre at the Education Department
of the Law Society of Ireland. She focuses particularly on research
and development of digital projects, digital marketing of courses
and events, content writing and editing of the website.
Rebecca has a BA in Design and has recently completed a
postgraduate Diploma in Digital Marketing. She is currently
undertaking a Certificate in Data Protection Practice at the
Diploma Centre, Law Society of Ireland.
REbECCA RAFTERy, DIgITAL PROJECTs, DIPLOMA CENTRE
Brian is an IT consultant who works primarily in education. He
is a graduate of DCU, studied for his masters in Technology and
Learning at Trinity College Dublin and is a graduate of Computer
Science in UCD.
bRIAN hENRy, IT CONsULTANT
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