Classification of Best Teaching Practices for Sharing Instructors' Expertise

Reaching good learning outcomes is not only dependent on the learning content; the teaching process itself needs to be enhanced by implementing pedagogical practices and exploiting the available technology. Most studies in the field of educational technology have focused on developing the learning content and resources while the instructors' knowledge and expertise about the teaching process and pedagogical methods did not get sufficient attention. This have created a need to develop technological solutions that organize and facilitate the exchange of such knowledge. Best Teaching Practices (BTP) used by instructors in their daily teaching can be the ideal knowledge building blocks to expertise gathering, sharing and reuse. BTPs represent successful teaching experiences that have been used by instructors and have good effect on the teaching process and learning content understanding. This paper proposes a system that allows instructors to reuse their best teaching practices by providing them with an organized repository that automatically classify BTPs. In this paper we are interested in the classification of teaching computing courses using the standard computing classification of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).