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How the authors addressed the construction, development, and use of
short cases, based on their experiences and technology application, is
examined here. It would be true to say that their business courses had

changed in the last twenty years! For one thing, class contact had
reduced to the point where a module of one or more years may now only
have an effective contact period of nine or less weeks. The impact of this
was that material coverage was limited with the knock-on-effect was that
traditional cases of fifteen to thirty pages were inappropriate in that they
inevitably cover theory not taught in class.

Personal experience, formulated around the need to deliver more
focussed cases for use in predominantly tutorial situations (See Diagram

1), manifested in the writing of a series of cases of varying lengths, for
the sake of argument, ranked as case vignette, caselette and traditional
case study (See Diagram 2) and delivered in a multimedia format. The
thrust of this article is not about the software and its development that
underpin interactive multimedia case studies but rather the rationale that

engendered them. Nevertheless, this hyper link will give access to the
interactive short cases
http://www2.napier.ac.uk/depts/imp/case/index.html when opened. Click
the Case Studies button, scroll down the page to Short Tutorial Case
Sets and click General Tutorial Case Set 1 and then type in the
password WACRA to access the cases.