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Short description
Case studies provide relevant, meaningful experiences in which learners can discover and abstract useful concepts and principles. In mini-case studies you can provide realistic, real-world experience by presenting a series of concise but complete examples.
Process description
- Start with a statement of the situation.
- Introduce any characters, objects, or organization of importance.
- Spell out crucial relationship among them.
- Alternate questions and answers about the situation.
- Questions should require the learner to carefully examine the situation, infer facts not stated, apply principles, and deduce conclusions.
- Pose some additional questions to learners.
- Learners should post their answers in the discussion forum.
Required resources
- access to a discussion forum
Examples
Do you have some examples, small changes or interesting contexts?
Comments
Learners can also make up their own mini-case studies and submit them to a discussion forum so that other learners could comment on the ideas.
Activity description was prepared on the basis of W. Horton's "E-learning by design".
Reflection
CategoryMethopediaActivity PSI: http://psi.methopedia.eu/learning-activity/mini-case
