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What is the case method? How can the case method be used to engage learners? What are some strategies for getting started? This guide helps instructors answer these questions by providing an overview of the case method while highlighting learner-centered and digitally-enhanced approaches to teaching with the case method.
The case method combines the power of storytelling with critical discussion, shared experiences, and rigorous academic practice and theory. Students find their most fundamental beliefs and assertions being challenged as they learn to think differently and more effectively.
The case method is a discussion-based, student-centered learning methodology that enables participants to learn by doing and by teaching others.
The case method is an effective way to increase student engagement and challenge students to integrate and apply skills to real-world problems. In these videos, Using the Case Method to Teach Public Policy, you'll find invaluable insights into the art of case teaching from one of HKS’s most respected professors, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez.
To assist both experienced and new case-method teachers, each case has its own teaching plan: a flexible road-map for the instructor that suggests specific questions, strategies for eliciting key insights, and ideas for organizing student responses visually on a blackboard.
The case method is a teaching approach that uses decision-forcing cases to put students in the role of people who were faced with difficult decisions at some point in the past. It developed during the course of the twentieth-century from its origins in the casebook method of teaching law pioneered by Harvard legal scholar Christopher C. Langdell .
A guide to case teaching. Ever more instructors are selecting the case method for their classes. We have gathered perspectives from leading proponents of the art worldwide on how to best approach teaching with cases and the resources that can support it.
