Using Case Studies

While business and law school are probably best known for teaching with case studies, the case method works in a number of fields. Here are some suggestions.

(Stanford's teaching center explains how to find them, create them, use them)

(Vanderbilt's teaching center highlights important questions to ask in creating a case)

(basic advice, plus ideas on how to incorporate cases into a course management system -- like Blackboard -- from Penn State)

(Cornell provides this helpful checklist)

Margaret A. Waterman & Ethel D. Stanley, (planning and writing cases)

Carleton College's Science Education Resource Center discusses ways to analyze the results of case-method teaching in

John Foran, , NEA Higher Education Journal

Harvard Business School video,

Video from University of Virginia,