They will use their experiences as resources for learning. These exercises call upon experience as a resource, take a problem-centered approach, and provide students with solutions or action steps that they can implement following the session. The collaborative element of this process calls for students to listen to each other and look to each other as resources. Next, students are encouraged to think creatively about the problem. Finally students determine the best courses of action.
Live cases go beyond ordinary class participation in the depth and detail of the information given.
Students are called upon to be observers of themselves and their situation, to suspend judgment, to differentiate between assumptions and fact, and to learn from each other. In eliciting student experience to be used as short cases, instructors must do a little homework themselves. There are two essential elements in implementing this activity. The second is to design a set of questions related to the topic that guide the discussion through analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. In the conference session, the details of implementing the activity will be shared with the participants.