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Furthermore, if the lecturer’s objectives are to be achieved then co-
ordination between case development and case analysis must be
addressed. Here pedagogy is the lubricant facilitating integration. It
starts with what is the case study about and ends with what has
happened, what is likely to happen, and what recommendations for
solution resolution may be made.

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.

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 Book etc. construction

Much has been said about the student but the lecturer also experiences
fear and trepidation with the development and use of case studies their
analysis and use. After all, in the eyes of the student body he or she is
judged by the quality of the experience they take away with them. For
the lecturer analysis and delivery is the yardstick. However, if the e-
resource integrates lecture notes as an embedded resource, self-
assessment tests and worked analysis this will go some way to aiding
the university in its objectives of providing students with more flexible
and deliverable course materials.

At this point the decision was taken that it was appropriate to marry the
elements of producing an electronically delivered interactive e-resource
case study and its analysis with that of the ice breaker case study in the
hope that useful lessons might be drawn out as an exemplar for the case
methodology.