Design for Learning and Teaching: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Design Products

In this paper. we will present some prospective ideas which should allow firms' strategic positioning of the market by using knowledge as a key strategic leverage. After presenting the three basic theories underlined design for learning and teaching, paper continues by describing the basic model based upon which we will develop our unique model;, knowledge ingenition process. A generic framework is proposed containing a macro-model and a set of micro-models mapping knowledge elements and their dependencies. These models together are necessary to analyze the knowledge situation of the firm and to conceive a roadmap for future trainings of various employees of the firm during the lifecycle of a product. These concepts are illustrated through a pan of a case study.