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Short case study development might well encourage

lecturers to attempt developing their own case studies. But

this is not a simple process or activity. Long or short the

fundamentals of case development and the case method

still have to be met. The difference between the two may

simply distil down to content focus where the short case

study has a much narrower field of view.

Case studies are complex unstructured bodies of material

from which sense has to be extracted whether long or short

Socratic questioning still forms a fundamental route to

learning. Online, interactive, multimedia applications

support a more flexible and engaging learning process. One

moreover that more efficiently and effectively address the

case components of Diagram 6. Especially when chunking is

applied to short case study development.