Pedagogical vocabularies refer to the languages used to describe learning designs and activities.
Sarah Currier et al. (2005) in a JISC Report, define vocabularies that may be used to describe pedagogy, particularly in the sense of the practices of teaching, which are inherently and dialogically related to the practices of learning. The rational for this sub-project was that “The e-Learning and Pedagogy strand of the JISC e-Learning Programme in particular has highlighted the fact that educational practitioners and learning technologists perceive a real and pressing need for pedagogical vocabularies.”. In particular it was pointed out, that clear vocabularies could help with:
See also: educational modeling language, design pattern and educational design language. These entries partly look at the same issue under a different perspective.
“A controlled vocabulary is a vocabulary consisting of a “prescribed list of terms or headings each one having an assigned meaning.”1 The way a controlled vocabulary defines the relationships between these terms or headings will vary in degree of complexity according to the purpose of the vocabulary, from simple alphabetically arranged flat lists to ontologies with richly defined relationships.” (Currier et al., 2005:9)
See controlled vocabulary for more details.
In this wiki, we present quite a lot of simple pedagogical vocabularies in various forms. Often, taxonomies are organized in a way that they could be called conceptual model.