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New Issue of Educational Designer Published

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of ISDDE’s journal,  Educational Designer.  Issue #15 is very varied, with four articles. Marc North and Sarah Heesom have written about design of their large-scale project to promote teaching improvement in underperforming schools. Nina Sangers with Evers-Vermeul, Sanders and Hoeken studied the policies for writing in Dutch biology, geography, and history textbooks. Deborah Fields and six colleagues report on SPIKEY-20, a virtual epidemic released into a virtual world, which infected thousands of players. Good design can promote educative outcomes for public health. Amanda Strawhacker, Emily Relkin and Marina Bers investigate design of an assessment of pre-schoolers in coding a robot. The editorial team hopes this issue of journal will help us to spread ideas and good practice of educational design.

We welcome submissions of articles for Issue #16 and also the Special Issue on Justice and Belonging.  See Guidelines for authors on the journal website. https://www.educationaldesigner.org/ed/index.htm

Issue #14 of Educational Designer released!

Issue #14 of the electronic, open-access ISDDE journal “Educational Designer” has just been published. It can be accessed directly at the home page Educational Designer.

The articles in this issue each focus on a design challenge. Harouna Ba and Dor Abrahamson discuss the designers’ dilemma of how much freedom to allow students to initiate and define their own tasks by comparing two movement-based STEM learning activities. Martin Johnson, Rachael Horsman and Darren Macy outline the design process they used to create a framework of mathematics content which can be used by educators in emergency contexts where learners are forcibly displaced by conflict or disaster. Yu-Ping Chang, Fou-Lai Lin and Kai-Lin Yang are leaders of Taiwan’s Just Do Math project, a wide-reaching teacher professional development initiative using a multi-layered and multi-stage cascade model. They describe designing the professional development for those leaders who will help very large numbers of teachers embed the new principles into regular classrooms.

“Educational Designer” welcomes contributions related to the design of educational programs, products. systems and services. Details of the range of contributions that are welcome appear on the journal home page.

Kaye Stacey

Editor-in-Chief

Educational Designer
E-journal of the International Society for Design and Development in Education

Virtual Conference – March 24, 2021

ISDDE (the International Society for Design and Development in Education) held their first online international day conference on Wednesday March 24th, 2021. It was a great success! It:
  • was hosted in three phases across 24 hours with contributions from Far East, Europe/Africa and Americas time zones;
  • included the presentation of the prestigious ISDDE Prize for excellence in design for education in mathematics, science or technology for 2020;
  • included plenaries, interviews, panels and discussions;
  • and focused on design in mathematics and science of curricula, resources, assessment, professional learning, teaching and learning with technology.

Publication of Educational Designer #13

The latest issue of Educational Designer, the journal of ISDDE, is now available at https://www.educationaldesigner.org/ed/volume4/issue13/.

In this issue, the authors describe, explain, demonstrate and reflect on practical design strategies that they have used in curriculum development, from primary school to adult learners. Koeno Gravemeijer discusses educational modelling through five case studies of the creation of instructional materials. The next article is especially relevant while Education is being so heavily impacted by COVID19, Erin Gibson and colleagues  exemplify and evaluate the design strategies used to transform in-person education materials for health professional for remote use.

Kevin Reins describes his experiences over a decade using modified lesson study with pre-service teacher education students. Finally, Hugh Burkhardt and Daniel Pead provide a sweeping taxonomy of 30 design strategies and tactics that have proved effective for curriculum material development at the Shell Centre of Mathematical Education. Strategies are described and linked to illustrative examples.

We thank the authors, the editorial team and anonymous reviewers for their hard work. After five years, Dr Sheila Evans, is stepping down from being our Assistant Editor. We especially thank Sheila for all her work and we wish her well for the future. Expressions of interest for the Assistant Editor are now being called for. Please contact Kaye Stacey at   if you may be interested.

Kaye Stacey
Editor in Chief