Why Use Case Studies in Materials Engineering

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • John A. Nychka

• New learners of a subject seem to love examples, and always want more of them during their process of learning. Examples are great because they demonstrate how to solve problems: they offer guidance on processes with respect to styles of problems. A commonly held misconception is that people will learn by observing how to solve a particular type of problem through the practice of watching examples worked out by instructors. In reality, examples are poor learning objects for higher order thinking skills development such as synthesis, integration, and creation; case studies are superior, and case studies are not examples.

• Date created

  2016-01-05

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Case Studies
  • Pedagogy

• Type of Item

  Learning Object

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-7yrc-9z32

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International