Planning for Case Based Learning

Instructors may want to consider the following areas when planning for case learning.

1. The learning goals and objectives of the course 

2. The course structure - a not entirely logistical consideration

3. Class size (see also http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/icbl/size.html )

4. Preparing students to use case study approaches

 (see also http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/icbl/prepare.html )

The above pages are based on an excerpt from Waterman and Stanley "Investigative Case Based Learning," a text module in the BioQUEST V Library, John Jungck and Virginia Vaughan (Eds)  Academic Press, 1998.  Sections on line at http://bioquest.org/case99.html  They are also based on the newer article:  Using Investigative Cases in Geoscience (Stanley and Waterman, 2003) online at http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/icbl/index.html 

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