Case Study Method in Distance Education

bullet1 Build a Case Study

bullet2 3. Determine roles

The nature of a case can be made less or more problematic according to the characters of people that intervene during its development. The author of the case may apply some playwriting techniques for defining hypothetic characters, and  putting them "to act" in the case. To this purpose, the author elaborates a list of roles, with their positions and significant traits such as age, gender, temperament, management style, educational level, etc. When the author writes the content of the case, he/she will use this list of characters as a refernce reference. For example, if a person has been defined as “sales manager, 34 years, obsessive of the discipline and authoritarian”, this person will not be prone to call meetings and ask for opinions.