個案教學見聞與省思：論臺灣公共行政與政策領域的深耕與發展   全文下載

Experience and Reflection on Case Teaching Method: Implications for its Promotion in the Field of Public Administration and Policy in Taiwan

美國哈佛大學素以個案教學著稱，近年來更積極推廣至全世界高等學府、企業與政府訓練機構；對照而言，臺灣公共行政與政策領域的高等教育與政府訓練機構，雖然也於十幾年前逐步引進個案教學企圖提升其教育訓練品質，然而近年已有逐漸冷卻的現象。筆者有機會參與哈佛大學甘乃迪政府學院的個案學程，本文期望以此參與觀察、個別訪談、次級資料及作者實際參與做為實證基礎，分別從個案教學發展多元行動者的角度，解析臺灣高等教育及政府訓練課程推廣與深耕的相關議題。
首先，研究發現肯定個案教學現場的熱絡互動確實是提升學習成效的關鍵因素之一，然而，激發此教育訓練現場的學習興趣，並非僅止於個案講師的技能，也需要來自教育訓練機構、個案內容與撰寫團隊的多元貢獻，這也足以解釋為何若干國外個案教學機構至今仍持續精進發展，而臺灣歷經十餘年的投入至今似乎已逐漸冷卻。本研究也論述，形成並發展包含多元行動者的個案教學生態體系與資源互補互利的誘因，不但有助於個案教學的整體永續發展，也將有助於個案教學法本身的創新，包括與數位學習、翻轉學習等新興理念與方法的融合及應用，相信也有助於臺灣的高等教育及政府訓練體系持續深耕與發展個案教學。

Building on its reputation of the executive education and training programs, Harvard University has been promoting case teaching to higher education institutions, enterprises and governments worldwide. Meanwhile, universities and government training institutions in Taiwan have adopted case teaching method in the past decade to advance their learning and training quality. The author was offered to participate in a case-teaching program at John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University. Aside from field observation, a series of interviews with the faculty members and peer participants were also conducted to capture and reflect upon the valuable experience.
The study reconfirms that case teaching does stimulate learning interest and devoted class discussion. Nevertheless, aside from the case facilitators, how education/training institutions and case writing teams develop the case teaching ecology contributes to sustainable development of case teaching. This also explains why those government training institutions in Taiwan now appear less engaged in adopting case method and produce teaching cases. In addition, the case teaching ecology will also advance opportunities to research and innovate case teaching aligned with emerging learning methods such as digital and flipped learning.