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paper stock and placed onto the top shelf of an executive's

office to be used as a breeding ground for dust bunnies. If

this were ever true it is not so today. COVID19 has put

everything into a state of flux and its ramifications and

influences will take time to work themselves out in the

educational arena.

Case study development is essentially the growth and telling

of a story but one coloured by the focus the author takes.

Simply put, a long case study tends to have a fuzzy focus

whilst it is more probable that a short case study has a

greater clarity of focus.

Part of the reason for this is that the short case study may

have less noise and less inferred information and definitely

has a lower word count. However, it still complies with the

basic structural characteristics of case study development as

shown in Table 1.