- This Webinar was originally broadcast on:
- April 29, 2010 Enroll Now
- Watch and listen to the original one-hour Webinar in its entirety. This Webinar recording features the full presentation led by Poynter faculty and visiting faculty including Q&A from the audience and resources from the presenter.
Course Overview
- Title:
- Improve Your Teaching With Case Studies
- Type:
- Webinar
- Cost:
- $9.95
- Originally Broadcast On:
- April 29, 2010
- Time Estimate:
- One hour for the main presentation and questions. Sometimes presenters stay longer to answer additional questions from participants.
Thanks to the support of our sponsor, the Knight Case Studies Initiative, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, we are able to offer this $24.95 Webinar for just $9.95.
About Webinars
In this virtual classroom, participants can join in a seminar led by Poynter faculty and visiting faculty. This screencast includes live audio and a slideshow presentation in which participants can post questions and respond to poll questions posed by the host.
Are you in the market for ready-to-go curriculum? Do you want your students to develop judgment, management and leadership skills? Are you looking for ways to improve and update your curriculum? Join us to learn how you can include case studies in your classroom teaching.You'll see how you can use them to immerse your students in the nitty-gritty of news management and production, and confront them with the most pressing issues in the industry—editorial, economic and ethical.
What Will I Learn:
- What is the Case Method of teaching?
- The three levels of Case Method learning: content, skills, self-knowledge
- How to run a classroom case discussion
- Specifics on how to teach one case
Who Should Take this Course:
Faculty at both the undergraduate and graduate levels who teach courses over a wide range of subjects: introduction to media; international reporting; investigative reporting; the business of media; ethics; science/religion/education reporting; crisis management; documentary etc.
Course Instructor:
Kirsten Lundberg
Kirsten Lundberg is director of the Knight Case Studies Initiative, which she started in 2007 at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has been writing and editing “teaching” cases for years, most recently about journalism and formerly about public policy issues at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She has led numerous workshops, in the U.S. and abroad, on how to teach and write case studies. Before Harvard, Lundberg worked for United Press International in Moscow, Stockholm, Brussels and London.
Sponsor:
Knight Case Studies Initiative, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
The Knight Case Studies Initiative aims to enhance the way journalism is taught by giving teachers powerful new tools for the classroom. The goal is to train students to think like newsroom managers and industry leaders.
Through class discussion, students have the opportunity to examine in depth a wide range of editorial, ethical and economic issues. Students are asked to put themselves in the shoes of editors, publishers, reporters and other news personnel.
Technical Requirements:
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