Design as Scholarship in the Learning Sciences is an informative resource on current design practices and its many obstacles. Through a robust collection of case studies, it provides instructive reference points and important principles for more successful projects.

Contents

Preface

Timothy Koschmann

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Untold stories

Vanessa Svihla & Richard Reeve

Chapter 2. Designing the Collaboratory Notebook: "Building the future, the night before it's due"

D. Kevin O'Neill

Chapter 3. Designing for Activity

Joshua Danish, Noel Enyedy, Asmalina Saleh & Christine Lee

Chapter 4. The Challenge and Promise of Community Co-design

Leah Teeters, A. Susan Jurow & Molly Shea

Chapter 5. Living in the Fourth Quadrant: Valuing the Process of Design

Brian K. Smith

Chapter 6. Looking under the hood: Productive messiness in design for argumentation in science, literature and history

Mon-Lin Ko, Susan R. Goldman, Joshua Radinsky, Katherine James, Allison Hall, Jacquelynn Popp, Michael Bolz & MariAnne George

Chapter 7. Reciprocal research & design: the wicked problem of changing math in the family

Shelley Goldman & Osvaldo Jiménez

Chapter 8. Designing the Connected Chemistry Curriculum

Mike Stieff & Stephanie Ryan

Chapter 9. Making it Real: Transforming a University and Museum Research Collaboration into a Design Product

Palmyre Pierroux & Rolf Steier

Chapter 10. Reflections on Design Stories

Towards design practice as a first-class research activity

Janet Kolodner

Iterations on a designerly science

Bo T. Christensen

Designing: The unseen dimension of our scholarship

Richard Reeve & Vanessa Svihla

Vanessa Svihla is an Assistant Professor in Organization, Information and Learning Sciences (OI&LS) at the University of New Mexico.

Richard Reeve is an Assistant Professor in Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, Canada.