Pedagogical Patterns and Learning Design: When Two Worlds Cooperate

The creation of new pedagogical designs are some of the next challenges for the future of the Technology-enhanced Learning. This article examines two different ways of describing pedagogical designs: Pedagogical Patterns and Learning Designs. We argue that they are two complementary approaches that theoretically have so much in common, while being disparate in practice. Yet we consider that the drawing together of these communities can only be of benefit to each and, in an effort to narrow this gap, we suggest the advantages from a mixed approach and illustrate in a practical example how to migrate from a Pedagogical Pattern to an IMS Learning Design.