Case Creation
Case Creation
Description
This prompt will help you as an educator to create suggestions for case descriptions to use in your teaching. As an educator, you sometimes work with hypothetical cases in your teaching to help students apply the knowledge from the lectures. A generative AI platform can help you create helpful cases for your teaching.
Didactic benefits
Using cases in your teaching can strengthen the student’s ability to connect theory with practice as they are forced to reflect upon how their theoretical knowledge can and should be applied to the case. The application of theory into practice is a core principle of Aalborg University’s PBL philosophy, and the link between those is not isolated to take place in project work but can also be supported in teaching.
Prompt
"Assist me in creating a hypothetical case for higher education, specifically designed for classroom engagement. The case should be relevant to the educational context. You must ask questions that can help you generate a meaningful case description, a minimum of 3 questions and a maximum of 5 questions. When you have your questions answered please provide a detailed case description, ensuring it's suitable for student interaction and discussion."
The above prompt is designed for ChatGPT (3.5). The prompt might work with other large language models, but you will need to test it.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Using cases for students to engage with in teaching aligns with several layers of Bloom’s Taxonomy:
Remembering:
The students must recall the connected theory and academic terms within this theory.
Understanding:
Understanding is engaged through the students’ needs to comprehend the hypothetical case as well as the theory they need to apply to it.
Applying:
The students are engaged in applying their knowledge about the context of the case and theory.
Analyzing:
Analyzing takes place when the students relate the theory and apply their knowledge to working with the case.
Principles for digitally supported PBL
If you are not yet familiar with the principles for digitally supported PBL here at Aalborg University, we encourage you to read more about them via the link above.
The case can support the following principle(s):
Variation
Variation as a principle is fulfilled through varying the usage of digital tools to achieve learning. The variation can be achieved at the lecture, course, semester or even programme level. The variation is not a principle limited to teaching but can also be fostered by supporting variation in the project work of the groups.
Inclusion
By guiding the students to use generative AI platforms, you engage students to actively participate in a reflective process regarding the choices of their research design or ethical standpoint. It makes it possible to engage students who are not as vocal and active in group meetings or plenary discussions. It is also possible that by having the AI facilitate the dialogue individually before supervision meetings students who need more time to answer questions will be able to actively participate in supervision.