Conducting Educational Design Research Book Review (original) (raw)
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2008
Educational design research is a genre of research in which the iterative development of solutions to practical and complex educational problems provides the setting for scientific inquiry. The solutions can be educational products, processes, programs or policies.
Educational Design Research: A primer
2017
This editorial article introduces the overall conceptualisation of the journal EDeR-Educational Design Research and its review-and workflow model. In addition, it provides an overview of all contributions that made it into Issue 1 of EDeR, before it invites the wider Design-Based Research community to participate in a variety of roles and functions. EDeR is seeking contributions on Design-Based Research within the educational sciences. All kinds of educational contexts can be addressed, such as higher education, adult education & professional training, vocational education, school education, and so forth. We welcome contributions on Design-Based Research from pedagogical, psychological, sociological, economic, information-technological perspectives, and so forth, as long as they focus on educational problems and challenges. Furthermore, we also encourage contributions that focus on methodological and conceptual challenges and the further development of the Design-based Research approach within the educational sciences.
Educational design research: Signs of progress
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This special issue of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology includes an introductory article by the guest editors and six papers that illustrate the potential of educational design research (EDR) to address important problems in higher education. In this final paper, reflections on the papers are made. Then the rationale for conducting EDR instead of media comparison studies is described with a concrete example. This paper concludes with a proposal for expanding educational design research through the establishment of consortia of collaborating researchers, practitioners, and funding agencies focused on the most salient challenges faced in education today.
Publishing and perishing: The critical importance of educational design research
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The outcomes of educational systems continue to lag far behind expectations at all levels, primary, secondary, and tertiary. Meanwhile, the sheer amount of educational research published in refereed journals has expanded enormously. There is an obvious disconnect between the educational research papers published in professional journals or presented at academic conferences and any form of beneficial impact on the students, teachers, and other stakeholders in educational systems. This problem can be traced back to those professors and research supervisors engaged in the preparation of educational researchers who fail to convey to novice researchers important distinctions between the goals and methods of educational research. Educational design research provides a potentially viable alternative to the kind of educational research that is commonly conducted in the field of educational technology. Educational design research has the twin objectives of developing creative approaches to s...
The complexity of educational design research
Quality & Quantity, 2013
To enhance the relevancy of educational research findings, a research approach known as design research has gained influence. This approach is described as complex, but no satisfying explanation of this complexity has been provided. In this paper we question why design research is complex by nature. Following a longitudinal case conducted by the third author, we argue that design research in educational sciences (EDR) necessitates balancing three different motives and accordingly, three epistemic practices: (1) educational research, (2) educational design, and (3) educational change. An analysis of challenges in the case study shows the difficulty for the EDR researcher to understand and disentangle underlying motives during the research process, but also the difficulty of dealing with different, easily conflicting research positions, resources, quality rules, time frames, audiences, and products. The identification and description of three epistemic practices offers a framework with which difficulties of EDR can be understood and anticipated.
On the science of education design studies
Educational …, 2003
The authors argue that design studies, like all scientific work, must comport with guiding scientific principles and provide adequate war-rants for their knowledge claims. The issue is whether their knowl-edge claims can be warranted. By their very nature, design studies are ...
Design Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Journal of the learning …, 2004
The term “design experiments” was introduced in 1992, in articles by Ann Brown (1992) and Allan Collins (1992). Design experiments were developed as a way to carry out formative research to test and refine educational designs based on principles derived from prior research. More recently the term design research has been applied to this kind of work. In this article, we outline the goals of design research and how it is related to other methodologies.We illustrate how design research is carried out with two very different examples. And we provide guidelines for how design research can best be carried out in the future.