Using Online Teaching Cases

1. Using Online Teaching Cases

2. Overview • Locating Teaching Case Studies • Inheriting Teaching Cases and Integrating Them into a Curriculum • Tailoring Teaching Cases for Particular Student Groups • Customizing Cases for Teaching and Learning Purposes • Online Instructional Strategies • The Evaluation of Learning Efficacy Using Online Teaching Cases

3. Locating Teaching Case Studies General Source Types Specific Producers of Case Studies • Topic and Domain-Field Case Study Collections and Repositories • Digital Libraries • Digital Repositories • Digital Referatories • Universities and Colleges • Academic Libraries • Government Agencies (with a public outreach component) • Non-Governmental Organizations • Private Organizations Using Online Teaching Cases

4. Inheriting Teaching Cases • Localization, customization • Add-on / opt-in learning value • Revision of assignments for local concerns and needs • Use of case metadata, such as topic, audience / pre-requisitess, an abstract, case contents, setting information, decision maker, issues / problems / interests, constraints, decisions, sources of information, research plan and foreseeable difficulties Using Online Teaching Cases

5. Integrating Teaching Cases into a Curriculum • Selecting appropriate cases that are relevant to the learning objectives of the curriculum; engaging to learners; informationally valid, and timely • Placing the teaching case in the proper sequence of learning (when learners have attained the understandings that they will need to apply to the case) • Building proper lead-in learning (research, discussions, and role-plays) to properly use teaching cases Using Online Teaching Cases

6. Integrating Teaching Cases into a Curriculum (cont.) • Setting up proper synchronous events (role-plays, immersive learning, simulations, problem-solving, live decision-making, and others) • Building proper debriefing learning post-case work Using Online Teaching Cases

7. Tailoring Teaching Cases for Particular Student Groups • Age and development-phrase appropriateness • Language needs (levels, language types) • Cultural needs • Necessary lead-up learning / necessary addressing of potential preconceptions • Technological access and needs • Localization needs • Unique individual learner needs • Accessibility needs Using Online Teaching Cases

8. Customizing Cases for Teaching and Learning Purposes Case Emphasis • Segmenting the cases for salience (selecting the parts that are most critical to emphasize) • Highlighting the cultural context of the case and the differences between the case context and the context in which it is taught Using Online Teaching Cases

9. Customizing Cases for Teaching and Learning Purposes (cont.) Augmentations to the Case • Creating activities to support the case learning • Creating assignments to support the case learning • Offering open-ended learning opportunities (field trips, research, and others) Using Online Teaching Cases

10. Customizing Cases for Teaching and Learning Purposes (cont.) User-Based Feedback Loops • Working with direct learners to understand and apply the relevant information from each of the cases • Collecting learner information in order to create “scaffolding” to support the learning Using Online Teaching Cases

11. Online Instructional Strategies • Use relevant resources from the WWW and Internet • Share relevant digital resources • Provide plenty of opportunities for focused asynchronous (and occasional synchronous) discussions about cases • Introduce experts from the field to shed new light on a case • Capture student research, interactivity, simulations, and role plays, and share these for deeper learning Using Online Teaching Cases

12. Online Instructional Strategies (cont.) • Bring in relevant recent news and related laws / ethics / practices / ideas / personalities linked to the teaching case • Use a variety of accessible technologies for enhanced experiential learning of cases • Design goal-based learning in immersive spaces / virtual worlds Using Online Teaching Cases

13. Option: Creating Online Teaching Case Studies • Faculty and subject matter experts (SMEs) may want to create their own teaching case studies for learner use and analysis • Self-developed case studies may be tailored for particular learning • Self-developed cases offer a clearer line of provenance for each piece of information • Self-developed cases offer clearer intellectual property backgrounds Using Online Teaching Cases

14. Option: Creating Online Teaching Case Studies (cont.) • Original teaching cases allow for fresh primary and secondary research • Original cases may enable the collection of raw information that may allow for the building of case augmentation in terms of digital artifacts (interviews, audio / video contents, photos, and others) Using Online Teaching Cases

15. Combining Cases for Learning Value • Research various cases on the WWW • Combine the various digital learning objects (DLOs) into a coherent study • Add learning items for prefacing, segue-ing, and concluding Using Online Teaching Cases

16. E-Learning Strategies with Teaching Case Studies • Pre-role play / discussion preparation (context and concepts) • Post- role play / discussion preparation • Customizable for different learning situations • Archival for analytical review, debriefing and discussions (post-teaching case work / activities / sims) • Potential tracking and “save progress” of case discussions for further discussion and analysis Using Online Teaching Cases

17. Case Studies Learning Ecologies • Human-mediated guides • Digital learning objects • Interactivity • WWW resources The image here shows that learners animate the learning ecology of a case study. There is value-added with interactivity, WWW resources, digital learning objects, and human (often expert) facilitation. Using Online Teaching Cases

18. Role Play Simulations • Contrived but authentic • Based on real-world situations, stories and role positions • Require clear stances and strategies (embodied in language and communications) • A focus on practical and real-world problem-solving • Pre-sim preparation: prior study, prior research, prior preparation • Immersive and engaging, full-sensory • Synchronous and asynchronous interactions Using Online Teaching Cases

19. The Evaluation of Learning Efficacy • Measures of learning outcomes • Anonymous online learner / participant surveys • F2F learner debriefings / learner datamining • Pre- and post- assessments • Instructor insights Using Online Teaching Cases

20. References Using Online Teaching Cases