International Society for Design and Development in Education

The International Society for Design and Development in Education was formed in 2005 with the goal of improving educational design in mathematics and science education around the world. Educational design has been an invisible topic relative to educational research, and there has been very little direct attention focused on design principles and design processes in educational design.

Society goals

This international society, focused on mathematics and science education for strategic reasons, has the following main goals:

broadly improve design and development processes used in educational design
build and support a community among educational designers and create transformational training opportunities for new educational designers
increase the impact of educational designers on educational practice throughout the world

Governance

The society is run by an Executive of approximately 12 members. Three officers have particular duties.

Current executive chair Lynne McClure, University of Cambridge
Secretary Kristen Tripet, Australian Academy of Science

Chairs History

Hugh Burkhardt 2005-2009
Christian Schunn 2010-2014
Susan McKenney 2015-2016
Lynne McClure 2017-2018
Jacquey Barber 2019-2020

Additional details on society governance are described in the society's constitution.

ISDDE Journal

Starting in 2008, the society developed an open access Electronic journal, called the, with roughly annual issues. The editor-in-chief is Kaye Stacey from the University of Melbourne. As an online-only journal, it has the advantage of being able to provide detailed worked examples for other designers.

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;
2009 Cairns, Queensland, Australia; Conference Chair Kaye Stacey
2010 Oxford, England; Conference chair Malcolm Swan
2011 Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Conference Chairs Frank Davis & Christian Schunn;
2012 Utrecht, the Netherlands; Conference Chairs Peter Boon & Frans van Galen;
2013 Berkeley, California, USA; Conference Chairs Rena Dorph & Jacqueline Barber;
2014 Cambridge, England; Conference chair Lynne McClure;
2015 Boulder, Colorado, USA; Conference chair David Webb;
2016 Utrecht, the Netherlands; Conference chairs Maarten Pieters, Wout Ottevanger, & Susan McKenney;
2017 Berkeley, California, USA; Conference chairs Suzy Loper and Mac Cannady;
2018 NUI Galway, Ireland; Conference chairs Tony Hall and Cornelia Connolly;
2019 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Conference chair Christian Schunn;
2020 Nottingham, England; Conference chair Geoff Wake

Regional conference

2009 London, England;

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

Starting in 2008, ISDDE supports a US$10,000 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

Malcolm Swan, Shell Centre, University of Nottingham for
Glenda Lappan and Elizabeth Phillips, Michigan State University, for Connected Mathematics

2009 prize winner

Paul Black of King's College London for a lifetime’s achievement of excellence in educational design and development in science and in technology.

2010 prize winner

Michal Yerushalmy of the Research Institute of Alternatives in Education at the University of Haifa for Visual Math, a curriculum developed through a rigorous process to produce innovative materials with great demonstrated impact on students, teachers, and educational designers around the world.

2011 prize winner

Jan de Lange of the University of Utrecht for a lifetime’s achievement of excellence in educational design and development in mathematics.

2012 prize winner

Jacqueline Barber, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, for .

2013 prize winner

Hugh Burkhardt of the Shell Centre for Mathematical Education for a lifetime’s achievement in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field, including his leadership of the Shell Centre and his key role in founding this Society.

2014 prize winner

Christine Cunningham, Boston Museum of Science, for .

2015 prize winner

Solomon Garfunkel, Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, for

2016 prize winner

Uri Wilensky, Northwestern University, for NetLogo

2017 prize winners

2018 prize winner

Nicholas Jackiw, SRI International, Inc. / Simon Fraser University