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How to Construct a Case Study

How Do You Develop a Case Study?

are a number of ways to develop case studies, some more successful

than others. The following list covers the main methods and also
discusses other options and experiences external to our institution.

• Developing a case study based on the research interests of staff.
• Requesting students to develop case studies based on personal
interests.

• Develop from scratch, maybe following interests/ideas picked up
from elsewhere.

• Invite external lecturers, for example from industry, to develop, or
contribute to, a case study.
• Developing a case study to replace more traditional teaching on

the same topic.

Rich cases : interactive case studies for information systems teaching
The case method is widely used to support a problem-solving approach

to teaching and learning in fields such as business and management,
education, and policy studies.

Rich cases would enable an information system design problem to be
contextualised, to be full of messy details (that might change during the

course of the project), conflicting evidence and multiple viewpoints, and
allow students to develop a range of potential solutions. They would
enable teachers to give students a more realistic, and therefore more

relevant, experience of designing software. We have not yet developed
a true multimedia rich case, although we both make use of "enriched"

HTML cases extensively in our teaching. These are frequently based on