Developing, Sharing and Reusing Learning Designs – Challenges and Dilemmas

This paper is based on a large research project, which we – as part of a research group- completed in the spring 2020. The project was initiated in 2017 by VIA University College with a link to a strategy named “Future Education in VIA, UC”. The strategy originated from the idea that the educational staff should mobilise and share good teaching and learning methods developed by high-qualified teachers. The goal was to develop the way of organizing education and teaching in order to involve and release all available resources to support student learning.
On this basis, we identified some key issues, which we have elaborated and expressed in the following research questions:
What are the implications for a context-sensitive professional teaching practice, when the learning design is developed by others than the reusing teacher herself?
What importance does it have for the process of developing and sharing learning designs that others should reuse it in a context-sensitive professional teaching practice?