Documentation:Open Case Studies/Resources/General

General Case Study Resources

These general resources on writing case studies may be helpful to your process.

Case Studies in Higher Education

• Defining, Creating and Using Case Studies - Carnegie-Mellon University (Eberly Centre).
• Using Case Studies to Teach - Boston University
• Teaching With Case Studies - Stanford University

Writing Case Studies

• Writing Case Studies: Carnegie Mellon University.
• Case Writing Guide for Students - World Association for Case Method Research and Application (WACRA). Although written for students who are researching and preparing cases at a high level of detail - it contains useful information about types of cases and their purposes, ethical concerns and the 4 basic components of a case.
• Cases That Sing - WACRA - short piece highlighting the 4 ingredients for engaging cases.
• A Biased Opinion About Bias and Opinion - WACRA. A short piece describing how bias creeps into case writing and how to avoid it.

Student Guide to Writing Case Studies

• Ethics Case Writing Guidelines - Illinois Institute of Technology

Reviewing Case Studies

• Elements of the Review Ready Case - World Association for Case Method Research and Application

Wiki Support

7 Things About Wikis Privacy in UBC Wiki About the UBCWiki Help and Support	Basic Formatting Formatting Tables Footnotes and References	Adding Images Embedding Video Embedding Slides Embedding Other Multimedia Objects	Adding a Sandbox Page Renaming or Moving a Page Upload a new version of a file	Sources for Open Images Open Licenses Attributing Open Licensed Material Searching for Open Education Resources Citing Resources in the Wiki

Question Boxes

• here is the mark up for a box that you can use to draw attention to questions that you want students to grapple with.