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 2011 Prize Winner - Jan de Lange
Congratulations to Jan de Lange, former director of the Freudenthal institute, who has been awarded the 2011 ISDDE Prize. This year's $10 000 prize was offered for a substantial body of work, by an individual or a team, over a period of years that shows excellence in design for education in science or mathematics.
Jan is an exceptional designer. He has a flair for finding fresh, beautiful, original, contexts for students and shows humour in communicating them. He emphasises the importance of visualization and 'slow" step by step progression in designs.
ISDDE Executive Elections 2012
Each year, 3 members are chosen to serve a 4-year term on the ISDDE Executive. Fellows of ISDDE are entitled to nominate candidates and, if more than 3 nominations are received, to vote in the ensuing elections. All fellows should have received details of the process by email – if not, please contact the Secretary. Nominations for the 2012 Executive close on 18th November 2011.
ISDDE Conferences
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.
Visit the conference website for more details.
The next annual conference wll take place in Utrecht, Netherlands in September 2012. More details will appear here later.
ISDDE 2010 Prize Winner - Michal Yerushalmy
The winner of the ISDDE Prize for 2010 was announced at
the Oxford conference, during the conference dinner at the Ashmolean museum.
The prize has been awarded to Michal
Yerushalmy for
her work on VisualMath. Congratulations to Michal! Follow the link below for
the full prize citation.
Educational Designer - Issue 4 now available
The fourth issue of ISDDE's free online journal is now available, with papers by Thomas Reeves; Lara Alcock & Nicola Wilkinson and Charles Lovitt & Doug Clarke. You can read it at:
For further information:
Contact the Secretary: Daniel.Pead@Nottingham.ac.uk for details.
Updated 11 October 2011