Page 27 - Case Lab Summary

Through their increasing demands and expectations

students are forcing lecturers and institutions to reassess

their teaching provision. To this end the case study needs to

be enhanced and augmented by the augmentation of

interactivity, accessibility and ease of delivery.

Collaboration

Collaboration is multi-faceted. It is easy to see collaboration

between the lecturer and the target company when

developing the case study but it is also more subtly, the

collaboration between the delivery platforms, the research

basis and environments in which the case study is grounded.

The lecturer and institution developing the interactive case

study must be prepared to expend greater time, effort and

resources to its achievement.

Co-operation

Here, if the case study has been developed as an e-resource

then by definition the student is accepting responsibility for

self-directed learning and self-progression. This may mean

that the lecturer has to build in a more open access to his

teaching methodology. Likewise it is inevitable that the target

company will be approached for co-operation in its

development. This also impacts on co-operation with in-

house specialists such as video interviewing and editing,

software development such as Dreamweaver, Flash, Flipping