Recent news:

The ISDDE Journal:

ISDDE is pleased to announce the launch of the new online journal Educational Designer.

The first issue includes papers by Paul Black, Chris Schunn and the 2008 ISDDE Prize winner Malcolm Swan. It is available, free of charge, at www.educationaldesigner.org.

The 2009 Conference:

The ISDDE 2009 conference will take place on Monday 28 September—Thursday 1st October, 2009 in Cairns, Australia.
Click here for more details.

The 2008 Conference:

Linking design research to professional educational design

June 29 — July 2, Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands
Hosted by the Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education.

This conference brought together outstanding designers and design project leaders from a number of countries around the world, including the US, the UK, Australia, Japan and the Netherlands, together with a few people from the agencies which commission or support such work.

For more details, see the conferfence website at www.fi.uu.nl/isdde.

The 2008 ISDDE Prize:

For excellence in the design of a product for learning science or mathematics, the International Society for Design and Development in Education has awarded the first ISDDE Prizes of ten thousand US dollars (US$10,000) each to Malcolm Swan of the Shell Centre, University of Nottingham, for The Language of Functions and Graphs, and to Glenda Lappan and Elizabeth Phillips, jointly, of Michigan State University for Connected Mathematics.

Click here for the full citation

Next year's ISDDE prize will be awarded for "a substantial body of work over a period of years".

The Annual Report

See the July 2008 report to the Fellows for a summary of the society's recent activities, including conferences, the ISDDE Prize and the eJournal.

For further information:

contact the Chair: Hugh.Burkhardt@nottingham.ac.uk
Tel. +44 115 951 4411