case method

American  

noun

1. Also called case-study method.  the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.

2. case system.

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Example Sentences

AI isn’t the first technology to transform the case method.

From The Wall Street Journal

For more than a century, M.B.A. students have learned business strategy through the case method.

From The Wall Street Journal

Law schools teach with the “case method,” in which students learn legal principles by reading judicial decisions seminal to the development of the common law.

From Washington Times

Ms. McFeely, 26, is a research associate at Harvard Business School, where she works on the Case Method Project, which brings case method teaching to high school history classrooms in Boston.

From New York Times

The case method offers historical distance—a safe way to practice political conversation without politicising the classroom.

From Economist