Three years of TeC@ses
This month marks the end of the three-year Erasmus+ project “Teaching case studies online: How to design and teach case studies in vocational schools” (TeC@ses). Since December 2023, the universities of Antwerp, Cologne (the coordinating institution) and Tampere, together with the Prague University of Economics and Business, have worked towards a shared goal: supporting teachers in business and commerce to design effective case studies and use them in their lessons in both traditional and digital formats.
The result is the TeC@ses tool: a freely available, self-study resource. It consists of four learning units:
- Design your effective case study
- Use digital possibilities when designing your case study
- Teach case studies effectively
- Use digital possibilities in your case study teaching
You can select and combine the learning nuggets individually as you need them, following a pick-and-mix approach. The tool is available in five languages: German, English, Dutch, Czech, and Finnish.
Current project status
The TeC@ses tool is available on the website in all five languages. Its development has been informed by several rounds of feedback and two evaluation rounds with teachers from four countries. Their responses have noticeably improved the tool in terms of content, didactic methods, and technical aspects. We would like to thank everyone involved most sincerely.
Workshop “Business Cases & Online Learning”
How can a case study be designed so that learners solve a real problem? How do you guide the discussion without giving away the solution? In national workshops, we will present the tool and demonstrate how teachers can use it in their teaching. This event is aimed at teachers in vocational schools, school administrators, education authorities, representatives of teacher education and teachers’ associations, as well as higher education institutions and other interested parties.
The Finnish workshops will be organised on 25th of November at 9–11 a.m. and on 26th of November at 2–4 p.m. with both having similar content. The workshops will be organised in Finnish.
Register your participation in the workshop via this link: https://urly.fi/4gvq
This is the project’s final newsletter. We welcome any feedback and ideas to develop case studies and teaching with cases further!
Contact: ilmari.puhakka@tuni.fi
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