This prompt will help you as an educator to create suggestions for case descriptions to use in your teaching. As an educator, you sometimes work with hypothetical cases in your teaching to help students apply the knowledge from the lectures. A generative AI platform can help you create helpful cases for your teaching.

Using cases in your teaching can strengthen the student’s ability to connect theory with practice as they are forced to reflect upon how their theoretical knowledge can and should be applied to the case. The application of theory into practice is a core principle of Aalborg University’s PBL philosophy, and the link between those is not isolated to take place in project work but can also be supported in teaching.

"Please aid me in developing a hypothetical case study tailored for higher education, aiming to enhance classroom engagement. The case should be intricately connected to the educational context. Formulate questions that will elicit the necessary information to craft a meaningful case description, with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 questions. Upon receiving responses to these inquiries, please provide a comprehensive case description, ensuring it’s crafted for active student participation and analytical discussion."

The above prompt is designed for Microsoft Copilot Chat (in Creative Mode). The prompt might work with other large language models, but you will need to test it.

Using cases for students to engage with in teaching aligns with several layers of Bloom’s Taxonomy:

Remembering:
The students must recall the connected theory and academic terms within this theory.

Understanding:
Understanding is engaged through the students’ needs to comprehend the hypothetical case as well as the theory they need to apply to it.

Applying:
The students are engaged in applying their knowledge about the context of the case and theory.

Analyzing:
Analyzing takes place when the students relate the theory and apply their knowledge to working with the case.