• Strategies for finding information for particular purposes – anything from a dissertation to getting legal advice.

• A discussion of what information literacy actually means – useful to get learners to understand their own skills and, more usefully, their skills gaps.

• The effective teaching of information skills to others – teaching others, or in this case planning the teaching of others, is a really effective way of learning.

• staff development

• vocational students

• students who use case studies in other contexts (such as business).

• One alternative strategy would be to ask your learners to construct a case study from a number of facts. This could illustrate how information is used in the workplace or demonstrate the consequences of an action. This could involve the whole class rather than just individuals or small groups and could be managed via a wiki or similar online tool (such as Google Docs, https://docs.google.com).

• Use the Critical Incident Technique (CIT). CIT uses real-life experience as the basis for learning. More specifically, it involves looking at a significant (or ‘critical’) experience and exploring this in more detail to identify lessons to be learned. CIT is often used in a strategic context to identify ‘critical’ incidents, but when used in a teaching context it can provide an effective starting point for the discussion of a case study. You can ask your learners to think of an example of a critical incident, or provide an example of your own.