Paper Info
Title
IDR: A participatory methodology for interdisciplinary design in technology enhanced learning
Abstract
One of the important themes that emerged from the CAL'07 conference was the failure of technology to bring about the expected disruptive effect to learning and teaching. We identify one of the causes as an inherent weakness in prevalent development methodologies. While the problem of designing technology for learning is irreducibly multi-dimensional, design processes often lack true interdisciplinarity. To address this problem we present IDR, a participatory methodology for interdisciplinary techno-pedagogical design, drawing on the design patterns tradition [Alexander, C., Silverstein, M., & Ishikawa, S. (1977). A pattern language: Towns, buildings, construction (Center for environmental structure series). New York, NY: Oxford University Press] and the design research paradigm [DiSessa, A. A., & Cobb, P. (2004) Ontological innovation and the role of theory in design experiments. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(1), 77-103]. We discuss the iterative development and use of our methodology by a pan-European project team of educational researchers, software developers and teachers. We reflect on our experiences of the participatory nature of pattern design and discuss how, as a distributed team, we developed a set of over 120 design patterns, created using our freely available open source web toolkit. Furthermore, we detail how our methodology is applicable to the wider community through a workshop model, which has been run and iteratively refined at five major international conferences, involving over 200 participants.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.compedu.2007.09.015
Computers & Education
Keywords
Field
DocType
interdisciplinary projects,design patterns tradition,cooperative/collaborative learning,design research paradigm,interdisciplinary techno-pedagogical design,pattern design,design experiment,prevalent development methodology,design patterns,pan-european project team,methodology,design,design pattern,iterative development,interdisciplinary design,participatory methodology,pattern language,language patterns,design methodology,design research,software development,design process,instructional design,educational technology,building construction
Educational technology,Learning sciences,Computer science,Knowledge management,Software design pattern,Project team,Design research,Pattern language,Pedagogy,Web 2.0,Instructional design
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
50
2
Computers & Education
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
1.10
16
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Niall Winters121718.98
Yishay Mor216030.94