CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY ON CASE-BASED TEACHING
To be produced in support of the European Union-funded Casemaker project.
Project # 531169-LLP-1-2012-1-DK-KA3-KA3MP for the EU Lifelong Learning Programme, Key Action 3 (ICT),
Multilateral Projects
ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY
The range of case-based teaching approaches available to teachers is steadily increasingly. Proven
‘traditional’ methods are being supplemented with innovative techniques. Over the last fifteen years or so
the well-established style used by business and medical schools has been supplemented with innovative
approaches – often enabled by rapid developments in the field of information and communications
technologies.
This ever-broadening spectrum of pedagogies spans from analogue to digital, from traditional to technical.
Instances would include:
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Classic Harvard/Richard Ivey style cases
Multimedia cases with minimal text
Real-time, hands-on cases (eg: featuring live visits; face-to-face interviews)
Simulations using data inserted into ERP-type software
Virtual environments (eg: Shareville, Second Life)
Fictional scenarios (eg: graphic novels, plays, movies, soap operas)
The aim of the anthology is to accelerate debate and understanding about the diversity of issues to be
addressed when writing and running case studies, and good practices in doing so. Issues could include:
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barriers to innovation with teaching case studies
new ways to create and/or source innovative approaches
alternative dimensions of case characteristics (eg: open v closed; synchronous v asynchronous; real
time v archival).
INVITATION FOR CHAPTERS
We seek chapters which report on and give practical insights into a traditional or innovative case-based
teaching method and explore the pedagogical issues related to that method.
When reviewing chapter proposals/full chapters for this anthology our international reviewers will want to
see clear evidence that these will equip teachers to appreciate the range of case-based teaching
pedagogies and to select appropriate options that will enhance their students’ learning outcomes.
The anthology is planned to contain some 15 chapters, each of about 15 pages plus references.
EDITORS
The anthology is edited by Dr Nigel Courtney, Cass Business School, City University London, Dr. Christian
Poulsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Professor Dr. Chrysostomos D. Stylios, Technological
Educational Institute of Epirus, Greece.
PUBLICATION
The anthology will be published as an e-book, with a print-on-demand option.
The publisher will be Libri Publishing Ltd., Brunel House, Volunteer Way, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 7YR,
England. [http://www.libripublishing.co.uk]. Libri is a publishing company committed to providing
innovative, high quality, challenging publications for readers and a highly responsive publishing service for
authors and client organisations. Libri was established in February 2009 by a team of colleagues who have
worked together for a dozen years in professional and academic publishing, knowledge transfer and the
management and delivery of blended learning projects. Between them, Libri’s senior management team
has over fifty years’ senior management experience in media organisations, higher education and
consultancy. Their extensive expertise includes authorship, design, editing, printing and publishing, IT and
e-learning pedagogy, and the design and provision of continuing professional development programmes.
Libri supports its core expertise with a broadly-based supply chain of long-established and highly skilled
sub-contractors.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Members of the Casemaker community, their academic colleagues and their academic collaborators, are
invited to submit chapter proposals (2000 words maximum) for the international anthology to Nigel
Courtney (nigel@city.ac.uk) by 15th August 2013.
Each proposal will be double-blind reviewed by Casemaker partner academics. Selected proposals will be
circulated in preparation for presentation and discussion at the Casemaker case workshop in Corfu on 10th
September 2013.
Following the Corfu event, authors will have until 27th September to revise and re-submit their chapter
proposals. Subsequently, the call will be extended to authors outside the Casemaker community – again for
double-blind refereeing. Accepted authors will be notified by 14th October 2013.
Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit a full chapter by 31st January 2014. These full
chapters will also be double-blind refereed and must be formatted in accordance with the stylesheet (tba).
Chapters not complying will be rejected.
The edited, completed manuscript will be sent to Messrs Libri by 25th April 2014 with a view to publication
by 31st July 2014.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
15th August 2013: Deadline for submitting your CHAPTER PROPOSAL.
14th October 2013: Notification to authors of accepted chapter proposals.
31st January 2014: Deadline for submitting your FULL CHAPTER
31st July 2014: Publication of the International anthology on Case-Based Teaching.