有关案例的几个问题

What makes a good case?

• The incident has emotional power.
• The incident entails difficult choices.
• Is open-ended, allowing multiple interpretations and solutions.
• Entails fundamental/underlying value conflicts.
• Speaks to important aspects of your goals for your student learning.
• Gets at issues that require or benefit collegial discussions,
• Is related to the important curricular and pedagogical aims of the program.
• The situation has stayed with you and wants to be told.
  
  

  What Can You Use for Cases?

  The following might be used as cases in your discipline.
• Problem Sets
• Problem-based Learning Activities
• Critical Incidents
• Slice of Life Accounts
• Ethnographic Studies
• Clinical Descriptions
• Appraisals/Consultant Reports
• Personal Stories/Narratives
• Newspaper Stories
• Case Histories
• "Armchair" Cases
• Scenarios
• Video Cases/Trigger Films
• Simulation Activities 
  

  How Do I Choose and Use a Case?

• Identify clear learning objectives.
• Know your learners...
• Understand how the concepts of the case fit into the overall concept map for the course or unit.
• Choose the best strategy for using the case materials.