Sharing innovative teaching practices — the knowledge management approach

This paper investigates a problem of sharing and reuse of innovative practices among teachers, rather than technical platforms. The paper starts from the emerging concept of learning designs (LDs) that are increasingly used to express teaching/learning scenarios that could be based on any pedagogical model (e.g. problem-based learning, role-playing etc). To address the identified research problem, the paper proposes to extend the existing model of LD lifecycle to capture various knowledge management processes necessary for sharing and reuse of innovative practices. To illustrate the proposed approach, the paper uses an example of problem-based learning. Finally the paper uses design research to set foundations for a new type of knowledge-management, educational technology that could be used to support knowledge sharing among teachers.