An inductive and opportunistic detection of a pedagogical pattern in a 17 online course sample

摘要

LabSET (Support Lab for Telematic Learning – University of Liège, Belgium) applied a pedagogical pattern detection process on 17 online courses designed by faculty. The analysis unearths 11 instances of an activity structure named here RQAT (Reading-Questions/Answers-Test) which offers an alternative (among others) to the conventional lecturing, still extensively practiced in higher education.The recurrence and the relative invariance of the RQAT learning design legitimated an attempt to format it as a pedagogical pattern, used within LabSET's missions of teacher professional development.The conceptual documentation of RQAT suggests also an "illustration" of the pattern and its linkage to a taxonomy of skills.