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Online Resources for Cases in Science

   National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science:
   Clearinghouse for Case Studies in Science
    http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.htm

Featured cases:

Does a One-Size Drug Dose Fit All?
Or, Why All the Variability in the Theophylline Blood Concentrations?
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/drug_dosing/drug_dosing.html
In a study of theophylline in patients with asthma, different patients respond differently to the same theophylline dose—some patients respond well and their asthma is controlled. Other patients do not respond well and their asthma is uncontrolled or, just as worrisome, they experience toxic side effects. Data is available for exploration.

Niños Desaparecidos
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ninos/ninos_notes.html
The case involves the identification of children who were displaced during Argentina's Dirty War of the 1970s by DNA and protein analysis, and subsequently reunited with their biological families. The relationship between society and science is an additional focus.

FILTHY LUCRE: A Case Study Involving the Chemical Detection of Cocaine-Contaminated Currency
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/lucre1.html
Arrested in an airport after dogs detected cocaine in his suitcase, a man has his suitcase which contained $9000 in cash seized under the provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act. If shown to be contaminated with cocaine, was the money used in drug trafficking?

   PBL Clearinghouse: A collection of problems
   and articles to assist educators in using problem-based learning.
    https://www.mis4.udel.edu/Pbl

Featured cases:

 A Bad Day for Sandy Dayton
http://www.udel.edu/pblc/samples/badday/
Students must reconstruct a rear-end auto accident that occurs outside their classroom building. They explore the relationship between speed and stopping distance, reaction time and stopping distance, and design and safety features of seatbelts and airbags.

   LifeLines OnLine
   http://bioquest.org/lifelines/cases.html

Case modules developed by faculty from two year colleges who have been participants in the Investigative Case-Based Learning workshops. Cases are still in field testing.


Online Resources for Problem Based Learning:

University of Delaware Problem Based Learning
http://www.udel.edu/pbl/

Center for Problem-Based Learning: a clearinghouse of information about PBL in undergraduate and professional education as well as for peer reviewed instruction of Problem-Based Learning
http://www.samford.edu/pbl/pbl_main.html

Maastricht PBL-site: Problem-Based Learning Links
http://www.unimaas.nl/pbl/link.htm

The PBLI is a group of teachers and researchers involved in PBL and active in faculty educational development at Southern Illinois University.
http://pbli.org/core.htm

Allegany College of Maryland: Problem Based Learning
http://www.ac.cc.md.us/Department/math.html/pbl.html

Journal of Chemical Education: About Teaching with Problems and Case Studies
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/AboutJCE/Features/TPCS/

An Integrative Curriculum Approach to Mathematics and the Health Professions Using Problem Based Learning
http://www.ac.cc.md.us/Department/math.html/fintro.html

Online Resources for Case-Based Learning with Calculus


Project CALC: Calculus As a Laboratory Course
http://www.math.duke.edu/education/proj_calc/index.html

Case Studies in Calculus
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~m3f00/csc.html

Reform Calculus Resources
http://barzilai.org/archive/

Visual Calculus
http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/
QR: Case Studies in Quantitative Reasoning
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/math/st/qr.htm

ICBL Links

Biology Case-Based Learning in Brazilian High Schools
http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/biocases

BIO 497 Environmental Biology, Spring 2003 Case Studies
http://facstaff.morehouse.edu/~lblumer/BIO_497/casedir

Understanding the online teaching case
www.ntu.edu.au/education/oll/cases/OnlineCases.rtf

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