Case Studies: Meetings

Friday, March 28, 2003, Torgersen 3180 (1:45-3:00 pm)

• Next Meeting: Friday, April 18, Torgersen 3180 (1:30 pm)
  • Following Meeting: Friday, May 2, Torgersen 3180 (1:30 pm)
• Attendees: Mary Beth, Jack, Con, Jonathan
• Workshop
  • Based on responses from eleven potential participants, we chose Thursday-Friday, 22-23 May for the workshop.
  • Need to contact all those who responded favorably regarding their intent to come to the workshop [Action: Con, Completed]
  • Need to block Torg 3180 for these dates [Action: Con, Completed]
  • Need to make lodging arrangements with Donaldson-Brown [Action: Con, Completed]
• Meeting at CHI
  • John Gersch suggested we get together at CHI. Based on Jack's schedule, it looks like the best opportunity for this will be lunch on Thursday
  • Con to contact all interested in the project to see if they will be at CHI and if they will join us for lunch [Action: Con, Completed]
  • Con to scout out a place to meet and post messages at the CHI message board for each interested participant [Action: Con, Completed]
  • What to discuss at the luncheon?
    • Motivate the use of case studies. We know everyone we are working with are using the text, but we don't know if they are using case studies as pedagogy
    • Share what we have been doing with case studies
    • Get their reactions and inputs
    • See if anyone knows of real-world cases we can add to the library
    • Jack and Mary Beth will lead the discussion [Action: Mary Beth and Jack, Completed]
• Case Study Contributors
  • We discussed several ideas for possible sources of case study material
  • Tapped In
    • Jonathan and Mary Beth plan to meet Monday to discuss methods for transferring newly available material into the existing case
  • Vritually Better
    • No response to several queries. We will give up on this one for now.
  • CHI 2003
    • All of us are going to CHI. We should keep our eyes open for software companies that may have a SBD story to tell as a case study [Action: ALL, Completed with no reportable results]
  • RoomWare
    • Jack to e-mail Norbert Streiz regarding RoomWare [Action: Jack]
  • Artificial Life
    • Mary Beth to look at company information to see if we know any of the Artificial Life principals; make contact if possible [Action: Mary Beth]
  • Computer Games
    • There may be interesting SBD stories in the world of computer games
    • Jack to check for possible game contacts (via student in 4764) [Action: Jack, Status: Write-off (see 2003.05.09)]
  • Biometrics
    • Jonathan to research biometrics companies such as Siemens [Action: Jonathan]
  • Virtual Environments for Training
    • Jack to e-mail his contacts in the training world regarding virtual environments for training [Action: Jack]
    • Mary Beth to contact Debbie Hix regarding virtual environments for training [Action: Mary Beth, Status: Write-off (see 2003.05.09)]
• CoWeb
  • The exemplar site Mary Beth mentioned last time is the Buffalo site of the Center for Case Based Teaching
• Literature Review
  • At Jack's request, Con has started a web page to collect information for a literature review
  • This should lead to a review paper on the state of the art in case-based learning (in general)
  • It should also set the ground for the overall project and the workshop
  • Need to flesh out the outline to include delivery issues
  • Con to take the lead in writing a literature review paper on case-based learning [Action: Con]
• CS 3724 Surveys
  • Generated two self-efficacy questions for the homework #10 survey
  • Con to create survey and pass link to Jack [Action: Con, Completed]