Around the world, there are accomplished people dedicated to raising the quality of design of educational processes and materials.
ISSDE was formed to help this group work effectively as a coherent professional design and development community.
The goals of the Society are:
- improving the design and development process
- building a design community
- increasing our impact on educational practice
The members are designers and project leaders with outstanding records, together with some representatives from government agencies and foundations that fund such work.
Recent news:
ISDDE Conference 2010: Second announcement
The sixth annual ISDDE conference will be held at Balliol Colllege, Oxford, UK on 27th-30th September 2010. The second announcement and draft programme is now online.
Plans are also underway for the 2011 conference, to be held in Boston, USA.
Educational Designer - Issue 3 now available
The third issue of ISDDE's free online journal is now available, with papers by Hugh Burkhardt; Nisa Figueiredo, Frans van Galen and Koeno Gravemeijer; Glenda Lappan and Elizabeth Phillips and an extended response by Paul Black to Alan Scoenfeld's article in issue 2. You can read it at:
The 2010 Prize
Nominations for the 2010 ISDDE prize, for excellence in the art and science of design in education, are now closed. The result will be announced at the conference in September, and will appear here shortly afterwards.
The 2009 Prize
On September 28th 2009, the first evening of the Cairns conference, Phil Daro announced the award of the $10,000 ISDDE Prize for 2009 to Paul Black of Kings College London for a lifetime’s achievement of excellence in educational design and development in science and in technology.
For those who do not know of Paul Black’s work, something of its range, ambition and impact can be gathered from his article in the first issue of Educational Designer.
Elections
Following the elections at the end of last year, we welcome Glenda Lappan and Angela Hall to the ISDDE executive. Phil Daro has also been re-elected.
The Annual Report
See the 2009 report to the Fellows for a summary of the society's recent activities, including conferences, the ISDDE Prize and the eJournal.
The 2009 Conference: 26th September-1st October, Australia
The ISDDE 2009 conference took place on Monday 28th September—Thursday 1st October, 2009 in Cairns, Australia. The programme and the papers submitted for the working groups are available online.
UK Regional Meeting
Design and development for science and mathematics education
This took place on the 26th-27th May 2009, hosted by the Nuffield Foundation in London. The meeting had an emphasis on design in science education, and its relationship to similar issues across STEM. Some reports on the speakers are now available online, more will be added shortly.
For further information:
contact the Chair: Hugh.Burkhardt@nottingham.ac.uk
Tel. +44 115 951 4411
Updated 02 April 2010