ISDDE Conferences
A major part of ISDDE's work is to organise an annual conference bringing together educational designers from around the world. Conference attendence is open to Fellows and Members of ISDDE, or by invitation.
Next Conference
Utrecht 2012
September 11th-13th 2012, University of Utrecht
The Eighth International ISDDE conference will take place at the Faculty Club, University of Utrecht, Netherlands on September 11th-13th 2012. The conference will be chaired by Peter Boon and co-chaired by Frans van Galen.
The theme of this year's conference is
“Unpacking Design Processes”
Past Conferences
Boston 2011
Design and Development: Transforming STEM Learning
The Seventh International ISDDE conference took place at the Boston Museum of Science on September 12th-15th 2011. The conference chair was Chris Schunn and the co-chair was Frank Davis.
Oxford 2010
Designing and Experiencing Products and Processes
The sixth annual ISDDE conference was attended by 48 delegates representing a wide range of educational design expertise from the UK, USA, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, France, Norway and Israel.
Cairns 2009
Principles for Design
The 5th Annual Conference of the International Society for Design and Development in Education took place on Monday 28 September 2009 – Thursday 1st October, 2009 at the Cairns Colonial Club Resort in Queensland, Australia.
Egmond aan Zee 2008
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 conference website at www.fi.uu.nl/isdde.
Berkeley 2007
Principles of Design
The 2007 Conference was hosted in Berkeley, California by the Lawrence Hall of Science, and chaired by Elizabeth Stage.
Oxford 2005 & 2006
Improving Educational Design
The first two ISDDE conferences took place at Baliol College, Oxford, organised by the Shell Centre for Mathematical Education and chaired by Hugh Burkhardt.