The International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE) was formed in 2005 with the goal of improving educational design around the world. Educational design has been a secondary concern in a number of settings and there has been very little direct attention focused on design principles and design processes in educational design.
The society has a number of goals, including:
improving the design and development process
building a community among existing designers and create training opportunities for new designers
increasing the impact of educational designers on educational practice
The society governance is outlined in its constitution. In brief, the society is run by an Executive of at least 12 members. Within the Executive, there are three officers with particular duties (such as appointing local chairs of the annual conference, organizing the prize process, etc.)
Executive chair Lynne McClure, University of Cambridge
Secretary Daniel Pead, University of Nottingham
Starting in 2008, the society developed an open access Electronic journal, called the Educational Designer.
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; http://www.fi.uu.nl/isdde
2009 Cairns, Queensland, Australia; Conference Chair Kaye Stacey http://www.isdde.org/isdde/cairns/index.htm
2010 Oxford, England; Conference chair Malcolm Swan http://www.isdde.org/isdde/oxford2010/index.htm
2011 Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Conference Chairs Frank Davis & Christian Schunn; http://www.isdde.org/isdde/boston2011/index.htm
2012 Utrecht, the Netherlands; Conference Chairs Peter Boon & Frans van Galen; http://sites.google.com/site/conferenceisdde/
2013 Berkeley, California, USA; Conference Chairs Rena Dorph & Jacqueline Barber; https://sites.google.com/site/isddeberkeley2013/
2014 Cambridge, England; Conference chair Lynne McClure; https://sites.google.com/site/isdde2014/
2015 Boulder, Colorado, USA; Conference chair David Webb; https://sites.google.com/a/colorado.edu/isdde15/
2016 Utrecht, the Netherlands; Conference chairs Maarten Pieters, Wout Ottevanger, & Susan McKenney; https://sites.google.com/site/isdde2016/home
2017 Berkeley, California, USA;
2009 London, England; http://www.isdde.org/isdde/uk09nuffield/index.htm
Starting in 2008, ISDDE supports a 10,000 USD 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 The Language of Functions and Graphs
Glenda Lappan and Elizabeth Phillips, Michigan State University, for Connected Mathematics
2009 prize winner
Paul Black of Kings 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 Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading.
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 Engineering is Elementary.
2015 prize winner
Solomon Garfunkel, Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, for COMAP
2016 prize winner
Uri Wilensky, Northwestern University, for NetLogo
