Offers a solution to the limitations of using case studies in business communication classes that use the double-message approach, in which students write a context memorandum along with their response to the case protagonist, thus providing instructors with a social context for cases and additional dimensions that enhance the instructor's ability…

A prescriptive moral guidance approach to teaching nursing ethics is unacceptable. Students should be introduced to philosophical methods to learn autonomous analysis and decision making. Case-study material based on personal experiences enhances the integration of ethical reasoning and clinical practice. (SK)

Describes a detailed case study on wetlands in Oregon that the author has mounted as a Web site for business communication courses. Notes that the case itself is complex and multifaceted offering seemingly limitless opportunities for adaptation to individual business communication courses. (SR)

Presents a case study for use in business communication classes to help students understand and learn both the context and the strategies for communication with business and management. Deals with communications gone wrong between a company and a very important potential client and what might be done salvage the contract. Includes correspondence…

Presents a case study for use in business communication classes to help students understand and learn both the context and the strategies for communication with business and management. Deals with responding to a customer complaint, including customer service philosophy, specific product information, and the fine line between sympathy with the…

Describes using the case method of teaching in a sociology class. The case method is a student-centered, highly interactive pedagogy that changes the classroom process into a collaborative search for an analysis and solution to a specific problem based on a case (a text that provides information about a situation without analyzing it). (EV)

Case Studies to Advance Skills and Employability is a project designed to introduce a vocational dimension into academic curriculum. Key employability skills are developed as students work on real-life case situations in such areas as public sculpture, waste management, human organizations, and environmental issues. (SK)

Features the use of case-based pedagogy as a context for exploring science teacher education reform. Suggests that science teacher education reform is a complex process characterized by the individual and collective narrative histories of teachers. Implications from the study emphasize that case-based pedagogy can serve as the basis for critical…

Discusses why experiential learning is often implemented incompletely in higher education and asserts that the case study approach is an effective way to involve students in all four phases of Kolb's experiential learning cycle. Drawing on previous studies, proposes that experiential learning fosters higher-level learning, such as critical…

Student-generated case materials involve description of an experience-based situation, analysis, generation of alternatives, action plan, and reflection. They address weaknesses of traditional case analysis, including implementation of alternatives and reflection on one's perceptions and behavior. (Contains 34 references.) (SK)

Evaluation professionals can benefit from practice in the same way that lawyers, doctors, and other professionals improve their performance through practice. The case method enables practice through role plays and situational analyses. Cases provide openings for evaluators and program planners to experiment with new norms of communication…

Current theories of learning emphasize the importance of learner-centered, active, authentic, environments for meaningful knowledge construction. From this perspective, computerized case-based learning systems afford practice fields for learners to build domain knowledge and problem-solving skills and to support contextualized transfer of…

The author describes the workshop he presented at Desert Vista Campus of the Pima Community College System on the use of case studies in science. During the workshop the participants developed their own cases and presented their cases to a group of students that were hired to act as expert critics. The faculty, usually in pairs, presented their…

A major challenge for Information Technology (IT) programs is that the rapid pace of evolution of computing technology leads to frequent redesign of IT courses. The problem is exacerbated by several factors. Firstly, the changing technology is the subject matter of the discipline and is also frequently used to support instruction; secondly, this…

Individuals with a cancer-predisposing genetic trait have a lifetime risk to develop cancer approaching 100 percent, and cancer often strikes early in age, before standard recommended cancer screening begins. Identifying hereditary cancer predisposition through genetic cancer risk assessment (GCRA) allows for intensified measures to prevent…