Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology

© 2012 Taylor & Francis. Every day, teachers design and test new ways of teaching, using learning technology to help their students. Sadly, their discoveries often remain local. By representing and communicating their best ideas as structured pedagogical patterns, teachers could develop this vital professional knowledge collectivelyTeacher professional development has not embedded in the teacher’s everyday role the idea that they could discover something worth communicating to other teachers, or build on each others’ ideas. Could the culture change?From this unique perspective on the nature of teaching, Diana Laurillard argues that a twenty-first century education system needs teachers who work…