Thompson Center Held “Teaching Cases Online Workshop” for AAPBS members
Earlier this year, the Thompson Center for Business Case Studies held an online teaching workshop on “How to Teach Cases Online” for members of the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS). More than 70 faculty members from 30 AAPBS member schools in the Asia-Pacific region attended the workshop, including 20 faculty members from the HKUST Business School.
Since 2010, Prof Winnie PENG, Director of the Center, has organized numerous case teaching, writing and research workshops annually preceding the AAPBS Case Center’s inception. As a signature event of AAPBS, the case workshop was previously held at other AAPBS member schools in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Brunei, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and Thailand. This year, the workshop was held online for the first time.
Relating to pandemic-related challenges, especially when faculty members had to adapt quickly to teaching online, the theme of the workshop and its format were specially designed to examine the best practices in conducting an effective and productive case teaching class virtually. Facilitated by Prof Bill SCHIANO, Professor of Computer Information Systems at Bentley University and a web-based facilitator at Harvard Business School, the two-day workshop explored several techniques to facilitate productive case discussions online and looked at various aspects of teaching cases online.