Case-based Learning
Content tagged with Case-based Learning
Bridging practice and theory in the professional classroom
Dr. Richard Schwartzstein, Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, is revolutionizing textbook-dependent classrooms through the incorporation of real-life applications. In this case, first-year Harvard Medical School students...
Understanding pathophysiology with real-life vignettes
Barbara Cockrill, Harold Amos Academy Associate Professor of Medicine, uses case-based collaborative learning (CBCL) in her Homeostasis I course
Cultivating the skill and the orientation to listen
Joshua Margolis, James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration, demands of himself intensive listening while teaching, and asks the same from students: “When I listen really carefully it allows me to push students hard and help...
Research: Using the case method in teaching education: The role of discussion and experience in teachers' thinking about cases
Research: The Social Perspective Taking Process: What motivates individuals to take another’s perspective?
With Politics Front and Center: New tools to help educators support students in controversial scenarios (Usable Knowledge)
Difficult topics: Seeking and considering alternative viewpoints in the classroom
Meira Levinson, Professor of Education, develops case studies about difficult questions in educational ethics—for example, grade inflation, charter schools, and policies that disproportionately impact low-income students of color—for A203 Educational...
Student case pedagogy: Learning from their own experience
Ronald Heifetz, Co-Founder of the Center for Public Leadership and King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer of Public Leadership, uses experiential teaching methods like student case analysis—where students collaboratively develop and analyze cases drawn...