Online Case Study (Phase 3 - student managed / closed activities)

Examples

Real life cases, test cases, exemplar cases, student’s own cases

Best Practice Model for Online Case Studies

Real-world Scenario

Supporting data and Documents

Open-ended Problem

(Penn State University, see  http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/cases/casewhat.html)

Student Activities

• Students engage in dialogue with tutor, students and others
• Students work in task-focused self-managed groups
• Students provide feedback to members of their own groups and others.
• Students manage own activities within the overall task

Tutor Activities

• Tutor set out overall task
• Designs task for student involvement
• Supports the nature of task and goals
• Tutor enables student management of activities

Further Guidance

Best Practice Models, case studies, how-to tutorials and online forums about creating and using online case-studies are all available in the Best Practice Models for E-learning Community at  http://crusldi1.staffs.ac.uk/moodle/course/view.php?id=9&topic=6

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