Track 1: Developing the Jeddah Flood event into a case study for academic use

Track 1: Developing the Jeddah Flood event into a case study for academic use.

Session Leader: Graham Attwell, Director of Pontydysgu, UK

Assisting Facilitators: Cristina Costa, Research Technologies Development Officer, University of Salford and John Smith, Learning Alliances, USA

Discussion:

§  Discussed what a case study means

§  Worked on answering the questions “who, what, why, how, and when” for the case study

§  Discussing the “who” (target audience) and “why” (we’re doing this case study) led the group to realize a research would be more appropriate considering the range of topics/perspectives we wanted to cover

§  Identified an initial set of resources the group could utilize in their research (including Dr. Yeslam Al-Saggaf’s students’ research, volunteers who participated in “rescuing Jeddah” after the floods, and various videos/blogs posted on the Internet)

§  Learned how to use a wiki for future collaboration on this project

§  Discussed a project check-in time for early next year to check on progress

Outcomes:

§  Agreed upon conducting a research and its suitability rather than a case study

§  Drew a [preliminary] outline for the topics to be covered in the research

§  Developed a preliminary set of references

§  Created a wiki for group members’ continued collaboration on the project

§  Set an initial timeline with the decision to convene for a ‘progress report’ on the 27^th of January, 2011


Asma Sheikh