{"id":165,"date":"2005-11-12T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2014-06-15T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:03:11","slug":"designing-effective-e-learning-case-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/designing-effective-e-learning-case-studies-165","title":{"rendered":"Designing Effective e-Learning Case Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maish Nichani recently gave an interesting talk on designing e-Learning using case studies. <\/p>\n<p>A summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Case studies<\/strong> should require students to take action or make a judgement based on what they are given. (based on \"Why Wisdom Can't be Told\" and Dewey). The case therefore needs to be some kind of emergency - where the student needs to make a decision.<\/li>\n<li>Harvard's <i>Case In Point<\/i> (link no longer available) has several good examples of case-based e-learning. It includes the social network of the case (managing performance). However, it is not collaborative - you are on your own.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Thin slices\" concept <\/strong>- looking at a small slice of the total picture to make analytical decisions<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Expertise of the masses\"<\/strong> - decisions by a group are better than those by individuals<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreyfa.com\/news\/2012\/oct\/football-tough-psychology-in-football\">Psychology for Soccer<\/a> (by the Football Association at TheFA) is an interesting example of teaching coaching skills by requiring the learner to make decisions in a game. The authentic coaching class looks at the social network (from parents' perspective, other coache's etc). Collaborative example - others' opinions are available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Critical Decision Method (CDM)<\/h2>\n<p>When designing the case, one approach is CDM. We extract thin slices of experience  from practitioners - cues and traps. CDM aims to understand the decision requirements of a difficult task, by interviewing an expert. (eg \"Give us a non-routine incident where your experience saved the day.\") Go back and chunk the event with a timeline. Then go back again - get deeper insights on each slice. \"What if\" queries, expert-novice differences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wagon wheel<\/strong> - could be used to determine the social network of the learning situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Decision Requirements Table<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the difficult decision?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it difficult?<\/li>\n<li>How is the decision made?<\/li>\n<li>What would a novice do in this situation?<\/li>\n<li>What instructional materials can help here?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other techniques discussed were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cues & Trap Inventory<\/b> Event, Cue & Trap, Description. What instructional materials can help here?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weave the story<\/strong> Background: Concept map, wagon wheels, CDM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>In summary:<\/h2>\n<p> Present scenarios - get responses - compare your responses to everyone else's.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maish Nichani recently gave an interesting talk on designing e-Learning using case studies. A summary: Case studies should require students to take action or make a judgement based on what they are given. (based on \"Why Wisdom Can't be Told\" and Dewey). The case therefore needs to be some kind of emergency - where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}