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There are numerous formats of representing good teaching practice, for instance, case study collections, pattern repositories, and experience reports. Yet, none of these representation formats has found broad acceptance among teaching practitioners. In this paper, a new description template for teaching methods is proposed. The template was constructed based on an analysis of previous formats for describing teaching methods, and by synthesizing findings regarding user requirements during browsing, selecting, developing, and implementing teaching methods. The so attained template was then evaluated. In a first evaluation phase, more than twenty international participants were asked to use the template to describe their teaching methods and to judge the template according to validation criteria. In a second evaluation phase, the teaching method descriptions were exchanged and participants suggested modifications. This paper presents the first version of the description template, the results of the two evaluation phases, and a discussion of the findings.
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Derntl, M., Neumann, S., Oberhuemer, P. (2009). Constructing and Evaluating a Description Template for Teaching Methods. In: Cress, U., Dimitrova, V., Specht, M. (eds) Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines. EC-TEL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5794. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04636-0_43
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