Overview
A case study is not a story about a company. It is a structured reasoning challenge disguised as a narrative. The case must be designed to produce a specific type of thinking — not just engagement with an interesting situation. Most educational case studies fail because they are either too resolved (the answer is obvious) or too open (learners cannot reason toward any conclusion without additional information they were never given).
The Educational Case Study Developer produces cases calibrated to the target learning objective: with enough constraint to make reasoning possible and enough ambiguity to require genuine judgment. The accompanying facilitation guide ensures the discussion surfaces the conceptual insight the case was designed to produce — not just an entertaining debate about the protagonist's choices.
What you get: - Case narrative with a protagonist, decision context, and relevant data - Decision point: the specific question the learner must answer - Case data package: the information provided, deliberately incomplete in instructionally useful ways - Teaching note: the conceptual insight the case is designed to produce - Facilitation guide: opening question, discussion progression, common discussion traps - Debrief structure: how to close the discussion in a way that anchors the learning - Extension question: one follow-up that tests whether learners can transfer the insight
Built for: educators, instructional designers, trainers, and L&D professionals using case-based learning in courses, workshops, or cohort programs.