3-4 April 2012, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This event is now fully booked. To place your name on the reserve list please e-mail Gemma Bluck.
Tutor
Overview
This practical and intensive workshop will offer a maximum of twelve inexperienced case writers the opportunity to take time out to work on an idea they already have for a case. The skills and knowledge that participants will acquire at this workshop will enable them to develop their case and to identify and prepare additional support material that will enhance the learning experience of their target audience.
Participants
Start Writing Cases will be of benefit to:
-
junior or senior faculty from any academic discipline who have little experience of writing cases for teaching purposes
-
business based trainers interested in preparing their own materials for employee development
-
those who are keen to begin writing cases or wish to enhance their case writing skills.
Programme
The workshop will begin at 09.00h and conclude at 16.30h on both days.
Before the workshop
Each participant completes a case template outlining their case ideas to be worked on throughout the programme. Participants bring any initial case drafts or background material to the workshop.
At the workshop
Key issues to be explored at the workshop will include:
-
what makes a good case
-
specifying and achieving clear teaching and learning objectives
-
overcoming obstacles to student learning
-
identifying and avoiding common pitfalls
-
enhancing the learning experience of your students
-
tools and techniques for improving the effectiveness of case studies and their delivery
-
case evaluation and assessment
-
how to publish cases.
Objectives
Participants will work on their case draft and prepare a teaching plan and teaching note for presentation at the end of the workshop. In doing so, the principal objectives are that participants will:
-
appreciate what makes a good case and the benefits of a teaching note
-
develop the confidence to write their own cases
-
learn tools and techniques of case crafting to meet learning objectives
-
learn how to enhance cases and case delivery
-
know how to publish their own cases.
Fees
£495/€645 non-residential
Fees include course materials and lunch. ecch member organisations receive 10% discount.
A minimum of one subsidised place for participants in developing countries is available on this event. If your organisation qualifies for our membership scheme for developing countries you may be eligible. Contact the events team for further details.
An optional social dinner will be held on 3 April for an additional cost of £30/€40.
Venue
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
w
www.vu.nl
Ever since it was founded in 1880, VU University Amsterdam has been known for its distinctive approach to knowledge. VU is an open organisation, strongly linked to people and society. What matters is not just the acquisition of a greater depth of knowledge, but also a wider one. We ask and expect our students, researchers, PhD candidates and employees to look further – to look further than their own interests and their own field, and further than what is familiar and further than the here and now.
Accommodation
This workshop is non-residential and participants will need to organise their own accommodation. For a comprehensive list of local accommodation visit
www.vu.nl
