Looking Back and Forward: What Teaching Materials Do Not Remember About Instructional Reasoning

Research identifies a critical gap in educational systems where the underlying instructional reasoning, such as design intentions and contextual insights, is lost when teaching materials are transferred between instructors. Existing Learning Management Systems (LMS) primarily store artifacts but fail to capture this valuable tacit knowledge. A new approach, 'Teaching Memory,' is proposed to address this by treating instructional reasoning as a primary knowledge form, facilitating its preservation and reuse within instructors' existing workflows.

This issue highlights a systemic inefficiency in knowledge transfer and retention within educational and training environments. Addressing the loss of instructional reasoning can significantly enhance pedagogical continuity, improve the efficacy of training programs, and optimize resource utilization by preventing the reinvention of best practices.

Instructional reasoning, including intentions and contextual information, is rarely preserved during the transfer of teaching materials between instructors.

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