Published in The Teaching Professor (December 2025).
Summary
Teaching in fast-moving fields with real cases presents three persistent problems. First, the news cycle moves more rapidly than any course can adapt. Second, such as in cybersecurity, real incidents involve confidential details, ongoing litigation, or charged political contexts that derail objective analysis. When you assign the Snowden case, students arrive with preformed opinions. Third, creating realistic technical, personal, and organizational documentation—network logs, incident reports, executive briefings, police reports, interview transcripts, and so on—requires extensive research time that most faculty don’t have.
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BibTeX citation:
@misc{straightWeeksMinutesCreating2025,
author = {Straight, Ryan},
title = {From Weeks to Minutes: {Creating} Hyperrealistic Case Studies
with {AI}},
date = {2025-12},
url = {https://ryanstraight.com/research/2025-12-01-weeks-to-minutes/},
langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Straight, R. (2025). From weeks to minutes: Creating hyperrealistic case
studies with AI. In The Teaching Professor. https://ryanstraight.com/research/2025-12-01-weeks-to-minutes/