Handbook of Design in Educational Technology

Introduction

Peter Goodyear

The Chapters

The chapters in this section of the handbook combine to provide some foundational ideas that can be used for thinking about design for technology-enhanced learning.

Ertmer, Parisio and Wardak provide a timely review of empirical research into how design gets done—who is involved, and how their goals, methods and contexts affect the processes of design for learning. It provides a useful overview of design, as well as a launchpad into an active, widely dispersed literature.

Keppell and Riddle open up a neglected dimension of design: work on innovative learning spaces. They use two case studies to explain how design principles can be used to align pedagogy and place. They also introduce the complicating but ...