Page 58 - Introduction & Preamble

Likewise, lecturers who select and use case studies on their

courses also require this information when making an
assessment of what they are trying to achieve through their

course.

The post COVID 19 educational landscape has changed and

the power dynamic between lecturer, student and

institution is realigning. With the introduction of course fees

and the massification of education pre COVID 19 students

had truly become customers who demand value for money.

Likewise mass education provision also strained the historic

paradigm with the effect that the learning experience,

virtual or otherwise, had to be crystal clear as to the

participants’ learning objectives and outcomes.

The case method at the outbreak of covid-19 was relatively

underdeveloped for online delivery and certainly was not
the norm. Case studies were more likely to be provided in

PDF format rather than an integrative body of work for
online delivery.

COVID-19 introduced a stimulus to change which drives the

case method to evolve. It is this evolution which affords the

backdrop to the case lab providing for an examination of the

efficacy of the case method against the fluctuating dynamics

of a harsh environment.