1. Determine Your Burning Case Study Questions

Prompts to Get You Started

What are the burning questions that you have about your project that you don't know the answers to? What do you need to know to move your project forward? What would the OER community benefit from knowing about your project? The prompts below can help you reflect on your project’s successes, challenges, and opportunities. This in turn can help move you toward your specific research questions.

• What is the project a shining example of? What has been the project’s greatest accomplishment thus far?
• What is the biggest challenge that needs to be addressed to move the project forward?
• What has been done well and what could be improved upon?
• What’s one of the most exciting things that’s still left to do?
• What internal and external sources of data/information are needed to ensure the project’s success?

Tools and Examples

Exercise: Write Your Case Study Research Questions