EAGER: The Professional Development and Instruction of Design Comparing both Distance Learning and Face-to-Face Delivery Methods

设计是实践(活动)，是产品(设计)。教育工作者面临的挑战是下一代科学标准(NGSS)要求将坐在椅子上的学习环境转变为使用技术支持教学实践和设计产品的工作空间。成功将与教师在将设计与他们的课堂相一致时的自信和自我效能紧密地联系在一起。教师必须调整从生物到数学再到物理的内容。这个与马里兰大学园区分校和摩根州立大学合作的项目将通过使用MyDesign让来自三个人口统计不同的马里兰学区的教师沉浸在设计过程中。MyDesign是一款通过NSF I-Corps学习奖开发的移动应用程序，它利用不断增长的基于网络的应用程序库来教授和练习设计。教师将被指导制定针对其课堂的教学内容。在这些学区开发和测试两个PD模型可能会影响设计的教学和实践。从这项探索性和高风险研究中获得的数据和经验可以及时地提供关于面对面和在线设计PD之间的比较优势和劣势的见解。利用《我的设计》进行在线设计教学，有可能利用大型开放在线课程(MOOC)扩展设计教学，并使设计学习个性化。通过提供随时随地解决相关问题的工具箱，在线设计教学和实践有可能吸引更多的女性、服务不足的少数民族、需要特殊住宿的人以及退伍军人。

Design is a practice (the activity) and a product (the design). The challenge facing educators is the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) requirement to transform the sit in your chair learning environment into working spaces that use technology to support the instructional practices and products of design. Success will be strongly tied to the teachers own self-confidence and self-efficacy in aligning design to their classrooms. Teachers must align content ranging from biology to mathematics to physics. This collaborative project with the University of Maryland College Park and Morgan State University will immerse teachers from three demographically diverse Maryland school districts in the design process through the use of MyDesign, a mobile application developed through an NSF I-Corps Learning award, which utilizes a growing library of web-based applications to teach and practice design. The teachers will be guided to develop instructional content specific to their classrooms. Developing and testing two PD models across these school districts has the potential to impact the teaching and practice of design. The data and experiences derived from this exploratory and high-risk research could provide timely insights into the comparative strengths and weaknesses between face-to-face and on-line PD for design. Teaching design online utilizing MyDesign has the potential to expand the instruction of design using Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCS) and to personalize the learning of design. The online teaching and practice of design has the potential to engage more women, underserved minorities, those requiring special accommodation, and returning military by providing an anytime, anyplace tool-box to solve relevant problems.