Digital Case Method

Overview

The course is suited for teaching and learning professionals, media professors, university leaders, and educators interested in learning, creating, and using Digital Case Studies. This course will allow learners to tap into the power of visual storytelling through the powerful format of the digital case study, which can and should be created by students themselves. This class uses video tutorials and practical guides to teach learners case creation using inexpensive tools such as a smartphone, stabilizer, and Adobe Premiere Software. It also dives into how to design, fund, and manage education programs built on digital case studies. To be successful in this course no pre-requisite filmmaking knowledge is required. An interest in documentary-style filmmaking and video editing is all you need.

Syllabus

Module 1: The Digital Case - History and Current Use

This module covers an overview of how digital cases are created and used including the format and different approaches to using case method in the classroom.

Module 2: Creating a Student Case Program

This module covers what creating a digital case study program at your institution would require, along with the elements needed to create a student case creation program. The “Visual Storytelling” class will train students in the basics of filming PBS and BBC documentary style footage with only a smartphone and stabilizer.

Module 3: Visual Storytelling - Production + Interviews

This module delivers the second part of the “How-To” content of the Visual Storytelling course. It focuses on story research and production, and explores how to plan and light interviews using both a smartphone and DSLR Camera.

Module 4: Visual Storytelling - Writing and Post

This module presents the third and final collection of “How To” videos from our Visual Storytelling class. These focus post production planning, writing scripts, working with footage, and strategies for adding music and graphics. We end with a discussion of the future of sharing of digital cases, and the potential impacts of AI on digital case use and sharing.