Activity: creating case study examples B
This activity looks at generating more substantial case studies.
Activity aim: to try out the use of GenAI tools to prepare case studies you could use for examination/assessment or for classroom activities through a whole term.
- As usual, you need to start with choosing one of the GenAI tools. Any simple chat tool will be suitable.
- Start by writing a general prompt which asks for a set of case studies in your context. I am going to suggest a complex prompt here, but you could break it down. Obviously, replace the parts in italics with your own context:
You are a university tutor generating different case study examples for 10 groups of students who are near the end of a Bachelors' programme. I want to test their ability to work in a team to solve complex problems in human resource management. The assignment should take them around 100 hours to complete, including literature searching, meeting, writing and preparing a presentation. 1) Create 10 examples of complex problems in human resource management. 2) Using the learning outcome and task descriptions below, generate assessment briefs (information) for each of these 10 complex problems.
Learning outcome: At the end of this module, you will be able to work as part of a team to propose a workable solution to a complex problem in human resources management Information
Task: The students will work in a team of 4-5 to produce a project report which proposes a solution and explains which tools were used to arrive at this.
Presentation: one member of the team presents and all must answer at least one question, chosen by the examiner.
If you are interested in seeing the output I ended up with, I have pasted it into a single document Download a single document, along with a set of prompts for generating marking rubrics and feedback statements that I will refer to in the later module on assessment and examination.
Bonus: add to your teaching portfolio.
Would you try this for real? what might the challenges be? If you do try it, try reflecting on the process and particularly on the student outputs - do they end up with material that is more interesting? Do the other students learn from what other groups have done? Is it more fun to grade? What have they learned from tackling open-ended tasks?