VirtualMV/Research in IT/Methodologies/Design

Overview
We propose that good design-based research exhibits the following ﬁve characteristics:
 * 1) First, the central goals of designing learning environments and developing theories or “prototheories” of learning are intertwined.
 * 2) Second, development and research take place through continuous cycles of design, enactment, analysis, and redesign (Cobb, 2001; Collins, 1992).
 * 3) Third, research on designs must lead to sharable theories that help communicate relevant implications to practitioners and other educational designers (cf. Brophy, 2002).
 * 4) Fourth, research must account for how designs function in authentic settings. It must not only document success or failure but also focus on interactions that reﬁne our understanding of the learning issues involved.
 * 5) Fifth, the development of such accounts relies on methods that can document and connect processes of enactment to outcomes of interest.

Design-Based Research Collective. (2003

Possible resources

 * Wang, F., & Hannafin, M.J. (2005). Design-based Research and Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments. Educational Technology Research & Development, 53(4), 5-23.