This Research Full Paper presents a catalog of pedagogical patterns for learning applications. Patterns and pattern languages are mechanisms to describe best practices and good designs to capture experience in a way that it is possible for others to reuse such experience. Similarly, pedagogical patterns try to capture expert knowledge on the practice of teaching and learning. Actually, issues related to teaching and learning have been increasingly discussed and studied lately, particularly regarding the development and delivery of computational learning applications. In this scenario, the existing learning applications, despite having several benefits and facilities, present problems and challenges that still need to be better investigated. Therefore, pedagogical patterns can be a tool to assist in the design of new teaching and learning applications as well as to the improvement of the existing ones. Motivated by this scenario, we present a catalog of pedagogical patterns established from the results of a systematic mapping conducted in this domain. Such catalog encompasses the patterns available in the literature and can be used as input for the design of learning applications. This study aimed at the identification of studies showing the use of pedagogical patterns as well as the problems solved when using these patterns. The results were extracted from 51 scientific studies, presenting 312 different pedagogical patterns; the set of retrieved patterns provided input to the creation of a pedagogical pattern language.
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