Case Review and Understanding with AI

AI tools can significantly accelerate the process of understanding and organizing case studies, ensuring clarity and depth. Here's how to leverage AI for this step:

• Summarizing the Case: Use AI to distill lengthy case studies into key points.

  • Prompt: “Summarize the key facts, stakeholders, and core issues of this case study. Highlight any decisions, challenges, and outcomes.”

• Extracting Themes: AI can identify patterns or themes within the text.

  • Prompt: “Analyze this case study and list its primary themes. Explain how these themes connect to common business concepts, like ethical decision-making or strategic planning.”

• Identifying Learning Objectives: AI can suggest objectives based on the case’s content.

  • Prompt: “Based on this case study, suggest three learning objectives. Include concepts and skills that students should develop after analyzing this case.”

Assessment Design with AI

AI is a valuable tool for creating diverse and effective assessments. It can generate questions tailored to specific learning goals and formats.

• Generating Questions: Create targeted questions for critical thinking and application.

  • Prompt: “Create 5 comprehension questions and 3 critical thinking questions based on this case study. Format the questions for both essays and multiple-choice.”

• Customizing Assessments for Learning Styles: Ask AI to design different types of assessments.

  • Prompt: “Based on this case study, design a multiple-choice quiz, an essay prompt, and a group presentation outline. Ensure they align with critical thinking and teamwork learning outcomes.”

• Grading Rubrics: AI can assist in creating grading rubrics for consistency.

  • Prompt: “Create a grading rubric for assessing essays based on this case study. Include criteria for analysis, clarity, and application of course concepts.”

Class Activities Enhanced by AI

AI can support educators in crafting engaging and thought-provoking activities for the classroom.

• Role-Playing Scenarios: Use AI to craft realistic stakeholder personas.

  • Prompt: “Based on this case study, generate detailed stakeholder profiles, including their interests, goals, and potential conflicts. These will be used for a role-playing activity.”

• Discussion Questions: AI can generate open-ended questions that foster debate.

  • Prompt: “Create 5 open-ended questions to guide a group discussion on the challenges and decisions in this case study.”

• Debate Setup: Structure a debate with AI-crafted prompts and perspectives.

  • Prompt: “Develop a debate outline for this case study. Include two opposing perspectives and three supporting arguments for each side.”

Content Integration Using AI

AI excels at curating supplementary materials and integrating them seamlessly with case study themes.

• Supplementary Resources: AI can suggest relevant articles, videos, or research.

  • Prompt: “Suggest three articles and two videos that provide additional context to this case study. Focus on ethical decision-making and strategic planning.”

• Contextual Alignment: Use AI to link case content to course material.

  • Prompt: “Explain how this case study aligns with concepts in strategic management. Include examples of how theories like SWOT analysis or Porter’s Five Forces apply to the case.”

• Visual Aids: AI can generate visuals such as charts or infographics.

  • Prompt: “Create a decision tree based on the options and outcomes presented in this case study. Include pros and cons of each decision.”

Feedback and Evaluation with AI

AI can help streamline the feedback and evaluation process, ensuring that students receive constructive insights.

• Automating Feedback: AI can analyze student responses for key themes and provide feedback.

  • Prompt: “Provide detailed feedback for the following student response. Highlight strengths, areas for improvement, and connections to case study objectives.”

• Participation Analysis: AI can evaluate participation in group activities.

  • Prompt: “Assess the contributions of each participant in this group discussion transcript. Identify strengths and suggest ways for improvement.”

• Assessment Validation: AI can test and refine assessments for clarity and difficulty.

  • Prompt: “Review these assessment questions and ensure they are clear, challenging, and aligned with the learning objectives of this case study.”