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:
Educational Designer - Issue 2 now available
The second issue of ISDDE's free online journal is now available, with papers by Alan Schoenfeld, David Webb and Peter Boon. You can read it at:
Issue 3 is in deveopment, and will the first themed issue, focussing on assessment design. Ideas for further contributions and contributors are welcome.
The 2009 Conference: 26th September-1st October, Australia
The ISDDE 2009 conference will take place on Monday 28th September—Thursday 1st October, 2009 in Cairns, Australia. The Second Announcement is now online, with full details of registration, submissions, plenary topics and working groups.
Note: register by June 30th to receive an AU$100 "early bird" discount!
Conferences in 2010 and beyond
The ISDDE 2010 conference is in the early stages of planning, and will be held at Balilol Colllege, Oxford on 27th-30thSeptember 2010. More details will appear later this year.
Our (highly provisional) plan is that the 2011 conference should take place at an East Coast USA venue.
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. A full report on the meeting will be posted here shortly.
The 2009 Prize
Balancing last year's prizes for outstanding individual designs, the "Eddie" this year will be "a lifetime achievement award". Nominations are now closed, the results will be announced at the Cairns conference.
The official announcement is available here.
Elections
Following the first ISDDE elections at the end of last year, we welcome Chris Schunn and Susan Mckenney to the ISDDE executive. Hugh Burkhardt has also been re-elected, and has been re-appointed by the Executive as chair.
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 conference 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
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
Updated 28 May 2009