Talk:Tips for Developing Case Studies

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I find that a lot of the literature on using teaching cases, the case teaching method, etc... is focused on graduate school environments with an instructor/facilitor and a case which consists of a document given to students ahead of time for them to read and prepare for the case discussion. This doesn't apply very well to what I want to do. I've been developing a case (I call it "case learning") based on a development project. It's been relatively easy to get to the details of the project because I was involved in it through a combination of monitoring and evaluation tasks, and reporting. I came across a case which was entirely developed around a simple PowerPoint presentation -- no need for the target audience to read anything ahead of time. In addition, to keep things moving, it was presented in phases, with discussion questions and decision points at regular intervals during the presentation of the case. I have adopted the phased-case approach but I won't be dealing with a live audience so I have more flexibility in terms of providing information about the case in the form of "Exhibits" -- some of which are web-based.

For some examples of a fancy multimedia approach to non-facilitated case studies, see NASA's Case Studies database, which is part of its knowledge sharing program. Go to the bottom of the page to find the Flash case studies. --Bfillip 16:17, 8 February 2008 (EST)