Product Description: In our contemporary learning society, expectations about the contribution of education and training continue to rise. Moreover, the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) creates many challenges. These trends affect not only the aims, content and processes of learning, they also have a strong impact on educational design and development approaches in research and professional practices...read more

Product Description: In our contemporary learning society, expectations about the contribution of education and training continue to rise. Moreover, the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) creates many challenges. These trends affect not only the aims, content and processes of learning, they also have a strong impact on educational design and development approaches in research and professional practices...read more

Product Description: Over the last decades, school-based curriculum development (SBCD) has been widely applied in many countries to bring about innovations in schools and classrooms. The notion of SBCD and its practice, albeit the diversity in terms of policies and cultures in different countries, stems from the need for a more participatory educational system, responsive to local concerns...read more

Offers an introduction to educational design research, provides examples of design research, offers researchers' views on quality assurance, and discusses policy implications, with particular attention paid to understanding and evaluating design researchwork.

Provides a synthesised assessment of the use of development research in education, looking at four main elements. This work provides background information including origins, definitions of development research, description of applications and benefits and risks associated with studies of this kind.