VCL Didactical Design Patterns

Problem	Different conceptions on how to fulfil individual roles within a VCL-project can lead to significant differences during the work progress. Tasks are generally linked to a certain role. Hence emerging tasks within the project are causing additional effort, if not linked to a role immediately. As a result tasks are either not completed at all or have been done twice.
Framework	Assignment of Roles; Solving a Case Study.
Solution	Content of roles should be made transparent and communicated in advance to each member. This also promotes the identification of participants with their respective roles in a VCL-project. Since roles are used within the case study, it is advisable to integrate them in the context of the case study itself as well. This means that the sample company advertises job ads of specific roles to which the participant must apply to (see Organisation of Team Assignment). As a consequence members already know the content of the role and their activities before the project begins. It is therefore recommendable to publish role descriptions on the learning platform, where they are accessible to everybody at all time.
References	Organization of the Team Assignment Selection of Roles Content of the Role Description Criteria of the Role Assignment Organisational issues of the role assignment