International Society for Design and Development in Education

The International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE) was formed in 2005 with the goal of improving educational design around the world. [Burkhardt, H. (2006). From design research to large-scale impact: Engineering research in education. In J. Van den Akker, K. Gravemeijer, S. McKenney, & N. Nieveen (Eds.), Educational design research. London: Routledge.] Educational design has been a secondary concern in a number of settings and there is has been very little direct attention focused on design principles and design processes in educational design. [Burkhardt, H., & Schoenfeld, A. H. (2003). Improving educational research: toward a more useful, more influential, and better funded enterprise. Educational Researcher 32(9), 3-14.]

ociety goals

The society has a number of goals, including:

* improving the design and development process

* building a community among existing designers and create training opportunities for new designers

* increasing the impact of educational designers on educational practice

Governance

The society governance is outlined in its constitution. [ [http://www.isdde.org/constitution.htm ISDDE Constitution ] ] In brief, the society is run by an Executive of at least 12 members. Within the Executive, there are three officers with particular duties (such as appointing local chairs of the annual conference, organizing the prize process, etc.)

* Executive chair (currently Hugh Burkhardt, University of Nottingham)

* Vice chair (currently Phil Daro, University of California, Berkeley)

* Secretary (currently Daniel Pead, University of Nottingham)

ISDDE Journal

Starting in 2008, the society developed an open access Electronic journal, called the [http://www.educationaldesigner.org Educational Designer] .

Annual conference

* 2005 Oxford, England; Conference chair Hugh Burkhardt
* 2006 Oxford, England; Conference chair Hugh Burkhardt
* 2007 Berkeley, California, USA; Conference chair Elizabeth Stage
* 2008 Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands; Conference Chair Peter Boon; http://www.fi.uu.nl/isdde
* 2009 Cairns, Queensland, Australia; Conference chair Kaye Stacey ([e-mail])

Prizes for Excellence in Design for Education, the "Eddies"

Starting in 2008, ISDDE supports a 10,000 USD prize for excellence in educational design, known as the "Eddies". The prize alternates across years between rewarding particular designs and rewarding lifetime contributions to educational design.

2008 prize winners [ [http://www.isdde.org/prize2008.htm ISDDE Prize for Excellence in Educational Design ] ]
* Malcom Swan, Shell Centre, University of Nottingham for [http://www.mathshell.com/scp/lfg50.htm The Language of Functions and Graphs]
* Glenda Lappan and Elizabeth Phillips, Michigan State University, for Connected Mathematics

References

External links

* [http://www.isdde.org/ ISDDE website]