Case stories for the "Patterns of E-Learning Patterns" workshop at Tuebingen

How to write a case story

The first thing we ask our workshop participants is to contribute a case story. Not surprisingly, many hesitate at this point. First, they’re not sure what we expect. Then, they don’t know how their case study will be appreciated. Finally (or perhaps this should be first) - we are all very busy people. Its hard enough to slip away from work for a workshop, but who has the time to write a well-documented, well-articulated, validated piece of research?

Relax.

All we really want is a good short story about something that worked for you. Think about it - even if you’ve had the most horrid course, with the most useless teachers / students, there must have been one little thing that went well. That’s our starting point.

What do we mean by short? As long as you can handle without disrupting your life. As long as you can afford. Its better to have half a page then nothing at all. Just go to the Case Studies section and start something. Remember, you’re among friends, and you can always fix it later.

What do we mean by a good story? We’ve prepared this slide deck, we hope it help with this question.

(In case you need some help with the technical bits)

Some examples from other workshops

• Driving Test
• CoMo
• Cross Site Software Development