Educational Design Research: Part A: An introduction

This book is the result of a seminar on educational design research held in 2007 in Shanghai. The primary goal of the seminar was to introduce a group postgraduate students and lecturing. staff in China to educational design research as a research approach. The second goal of the seminar was to prepare proceedings of the seminar written in such a way that they can be used in postgraduate seminars on educational design research across China. Part A of this book provides an introduction into educational design research as a suitable research approach either to address complex problems in educational practice or to develop or validate theories about learning processes, learning environments etc. Part B contains a collection of 51 examples of successful educational design research projects written by researchers from more than 20 countries. These examples enable graduate students and novice teachers to learn how to design and conduct a project using an educational design research approach.