Less well known, perhaps, is the work on organizational patterns, which has had great success in many industry sectors, such as telecommunications. The effort to write and collect pedagogical patterns, with many authors contributing patterns and pattern languages, has reached international scope. Second, the patterns approach was beginning to be widely used to document technical topics in the OT world. Today, people interested in pedagogical patterns still belong mostly to the OT community, but there are tendencies to widen the project to all kinds of teachers, educators and trainers. Pedagogical patterns attempt to capture the knowledge of experienced teachers in a way that can be applied by novice teachers.
Patterns can also capture expert knowledge of teaching techniques in a certain domain.
This expert knowledge can be valuable to experienced teachers who are unfamiliar with a specific domain that they have to teach. Below is an example pattern called Digestible Packets. The language covers preparation, room arrangement, social aspects, exams, and many other topics. This is the primary reason to include regular breaks. If a topic takes longer than the time people can concentrate, the participants will have difficulties understanding the topic in its entirety.