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see also schools and courses
see also Mini-Course on Writing
- Teaching Leadership Using Movies ___[return to top]
- Case Studies ___[return to top]
- See AU-24, Concepts for Air Force Leadership, with more than 70 online articles, many of which can be developed into case studies
- See also Lessons Learned for additional material which lends itself to building case studies
- Case-Based Learning - resources on how-to
- Problem-Based Learning - resources on how-to
- Learning the lessons of leadership: Case method teaching with interactive, computer-based tools and
film-based cases (Local Copy), by Hill et al, Technical Report 1226, United States Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Mar 2008
- Solving a Shortfall in Executive Education: Real Time Case Study Teaching (Local Copy), by Murphy, U.S. Army War College
- Educating U.S. Senior Military Leaders: Case Method Teaching in Action (Local Copy), by Murphy, U.S. Army War College
- Values and Ethics Case Studies
- List Of National Security Studies (NSS) Case Studies at National Security Studies, "the premiere professional development and training program for the senior civilian and military leadership of the Defense Department"
National Security Studies is the product of a partnership between the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Two of the nation’s most prominent institutions bring world-renown reputations for expertise in public management and national security strategy to the development and conduct of three distinct courses of DoD’s senior leadership: National Security Management Course, National Security Leadership Course, and National Security Decision Making Seminar.
- Training Adaptive Leaders (local copy), Army Research Institute Newsletter, May 2003 - "train a performance - a thinking performance" - using the Think Like a Commander vignettes to improve ability to identify critical information
- Case Studies in Public Policy and Management, Kennedy School of Government
- The ABCs of Case Teaching, a manual on case teaching at Georgetown University
- from the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, which features the Pew Case Studies in International Affairs
- International Case Studies, from Columbia International Affairs Online - EU enlargement, water sharing in Middle East, Balkans security, and more
- Case Studies in Policy Making and Implementation (Local Copy, separate file for each case - Rwanda, Somalia, Homeland Security, etc.) - handbook from the Naval War College
- Accountability of Leadership - Khobar to Cole, lesson for AWC
- Command Concepts, RAND book by Builder et al -- includes basics of command and control theory and case studies of Nimitz, Guderian, Schwarzkopf, MacArthur, Moore, and Montgomery
- Command Dysfunction: Minding the Cognitive War, SAAS paper by Dahl - examines decision-making, deception, and examples of Normandy, the Bulge, and the October 1973 War
- Command Decisions, Center of Military History (CMH) collection of essays on the key decisions by both sides in both theaters of WW II -- including plans and decisions between the wars
- Studies in Battle Command (local copy), by the faculty of Combat Studies Institute -- short summaries of key historical battles
- World Association for Case Method Research & Application (WACRA) - workshops and conferences
- Simulations ___[return to top]
- Use a large-scale computer game, such as Civilization
- Have faculty play the game to set up a crisis -- having manipulated the political, economic, military, and other aspects
- "Save" the game at the crisis point and make a copy of the "saved" game data for each group of students (each group will be using its own legal copy of the commercial game)
- Create intelligence briefings and other support material, to communicate to the students the details of the situation
- Create "cheat sheets" for the faculty of likely student actions and or questions ... and appropriate faculty inputs
- Bring the student groups together - each group attempting to solve the crisis using their strategic leadership skills
- Let each group play through the crisis, and probably a bit past it (so the unintended consequences have a chance to show up)
- Have each group discuss what they did, and why, and their view of how well it turned out
- Use the metrics of the game (such as stock market, unemployment, number dead, etc.) to help evaluate each game (including discussion of how much each metric would be valued by the decision-makers in this situation)
- And/or have groups compare their solutions and results of their efforts
- Gather student and faculty feedback for improvement of the crisis criteria and support materials
- Total cost: $50-$100 per group (depends on game chosen)
- Courses ___[return to top]
- Other ___[return to top]
- Mapping the Route of Leadership Education: Caution Ahead, by Reed et al, in Parameters, Autumn 2004
- Senior Officer Oral History Program (SOOHP), Military History Institute
(You might consider having your students collect oral histories from strategic leaders, possibly as a replacement for, or an enhancement to, a traditional research project. They might learn something.)
- Oral Historying and Interviewing, how-to resources and online examples
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