Case Based Research

I don’t know if I can say anything better than what Candice shared on her blog about CBR. If you haven’t seen her blog yet, check it out: http://thelifeandtimesofcandy.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/case-based-reasoning-me-likey/#comment-16

Everybody loves to hear stories. Story telling is our oldest human tradition and one that has retained it’s intimacy like no other over time. When you share a story, you selflessly share part of yourself. How better a way is there to teach the really important lessons of life? Our authors mentioned that CBR was used for medical, legal, and high tech learning. Is it any wonder that we would teach in this way to those who hold our lives in their hands? Do we want to leave any room for misunderstanding when a mistake made by a doctor or nurse could cost us our life? Could a wrong assumption by a lawyer cost us our freedom? CBR is the very best way to learn from the victories and mistakes of the ones who have gone before us. It teaches us best practices and teaches us how to avoid disaster. The lessons are heart felt because the ones who went before us paid the price and are sharing their stories to spare us from the same hurt, humiliation, and failure that they experienced as well as those victorious mountain top experiences that we can work to emulate in our work.

I found myself very interested in the plight of the souther slaves by working through the CBR example this week and began to wonder why I was having so much fun doing my homework. It mattered. The stories mattered. They were real and we could all learn from them. That’s why CBR works. It matters.

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