Abstract
This research paper describes a teaching practices management framework (TPMF) that strongly supports sharing processes among instructors, particularly those that can be performed with the help of an information system. The purpose is to allow teachers' accumulated experience to be identified, shared and reused, which can offer significant benefits, including the introduction of teaching innovations. Such innovation can lead to improvements in overall teaching quality and the enhancement of academics' professional development efforts. The development of the TPMF in the present study has been informed by semi-structured interviews conducted with 22 instructors working in two universities in Saudi Arabia; these interviews were undertaken to better understand the academics' actual knowledge sharing behaviours in relation to TPs and also to gain a perspective of current knowledge sharing approaches. An inductive coding approach was employed to help the researcher extract themes that were mentioned by the interviewees. It is believed that this framework could be of great assistance to the higher education sector. We further recommend that it could be used as a guideline for developing systems aimed at improving TP sharing among academics.