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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.
A case study is a teaching method based on the description of a real or hypothetical situation that requires a solution or action. No analysis is provided, so learners analyze the case themselves to make a decision or produce possible solutions.
9 lis 2010 · The document provides basic rules for using case studies, such as starting with a real-life example, designing tasks for pair or team work, fostering creativity, and debriefing to get student feedback.
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 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 .
Unlike lectures, case method classes unfold without a detailed script. Successful instructors simultaneously manage content and process, and they must prepare rigorously for both. Case method teachers learn to balance planning and spontaneity.
13 sty 2011 · This paper describes the process of developing cases for teacher education. In it we report on how our cases were field-tested and we illustrate the types of discussions that can emerge in an EFL teacher education class.
