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Introducing Digital Case Library
Abstract
Case-based learning is one of the major pedagogical approaches applied in formal and informal teaching and learning. This article introduces an interactive digital case library which supports a full range of case study activities, such as case authoring, browsing, and annotating. Digital case libraries differ from common digital libraries in that resources of common digital libraries usually come from centralized sources, which are provided by the owners of digital libraries, such as university libraries, or publishers who run those digital libraries. Furthermore, cases usually come from distributed sources (i.e., course instructors, students, or real-world practitioners). Many cases are developed as by-products of teaching practice. For example, an instructor creates several cases for the class he or she teaches, and after created, these cases can be used for many years or shared with other instructors. Most case libraries currently available, however, do not support case authoring in such a distributed manner. This causes a version of “tragedy of the commons” in that users do not have means and motivation to contribute to the resources of digital library, and hence the value of digital case library and benefits of using it will be impaired greatly. One solution to this dilemma is to make the users perceive their contribution and authorship in explicit manners, provide convenient means enabling their contribution, and at the same time make the users experience the benefit of using the system. The interactive digital case library presented here plays two major roles. First, the digital case library is a Web application system, providing supports for participatory activities and case use; second, the system is a digital repository, collecting, storing, and retrieving cases. The idea is to provide services for community members to contribute and use what they have contributed. In this way, the value of the digital case library will increase and the community will be rewarded over time.
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