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Table 1.

Case-based pedagogy history

Year	Milestone
1910s	Harvard Business School adopts the case method, inspired by legal pedagogy; emphasizes decision-making under uncertainty
1957	C. Roland Christensen develops “discussion leadership” as a pedagogy distinct from lecturing
1980s	David Garvin reframes the case method as a system of design: cases as artifacts, classrooms as co-constructed environments
1990s	Digital tools support multimedia and online cases, but authorship remains human-led
2020–2022	AI tools appear, mainly assisting grammar or structure; minimal impact on deeper pedagogical design
2023–present	Generative AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) becomes widespread; educators explore AI as co-author, raising questions of ethics and authorship

Year	Milestone
1910s	Harvard Business School adopts the case method, inspired by legal pedagogy; emphasizes decision-making under uncertainty
1957	C. Roland Christensen develops “discussion leadership” as a pedagogy distinct from lecturing
1980s	David Garvin reframes the case method as a system of design: cases as artifacts, classrooms as co-constructed environments
1990s	Digital tools support multimedia and online cases, but authorship remains human-led
2020–2022	AI tools appear, mainly assisting grammar or structure; minimal impact on deeper pedagogical design
2023–present	Generative AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) becomes widespread; educators explore AI as co-author, raising questions of ethics and authorship

Note(s):

Adapted from Christensen et al. (1991) and Garvin (2003); 2020–present milestones synthesized by the author based on emerging AI scholarship

Source(s): Author’s own work