Graduate Student Resource Hub in Design Research in Education

An increasing number of doctoral students are using a framework of design research for their studies. If you are developing materials, tasks, software or other products as part of your research, such an approach may be relevant to you.

You may feel unsure about what it means to do design research. This website has collected materials and ideas that may offer you some insight into this type of research. You will find, for example, videos about the theory and the practice, a bibliography, reviews, a study guide and a glossary. You are encouraged to join the design research community and contribute directly to this evolving website.

The site aims to promote and facilitate:

  • Continued networking activity between academics within the participating institutions.
  • New connections between doctoral students with compatible interests within the those institutions.
  • Digital resources based on the seminars and case studies, with supporting materials, developed for the workshops for doctoral students interested in using a Design Research methodology.
  • The start of a community of European researchers with the common interest of design research.

About this site

The need for the Resource Hub was identified in the lack of available literature about design research for students, despite the proliferation of publications and courses on more traditional education research approaches. Two workshops were attended by academics and students in London and Bratislava and to discuss benefits and limitations of using design-based research for doctoral research.

Presentations from the workshops were videoed and included on the website. In addition a list of reading materials and key questions were drafted during these sessions. Finally, through collaborative reflection and discussion, an online study guide was, and is still being, iteratively developed.

design research cycle

from:
Mor, Yishay (2010) 'A Design Approach to Research in Technology Enhanced Mathematics Education', PhD thesis, Institute of Education, University of London
www.yishaymor.org/phd

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