KDI: Creating a Corpus of Learning-Situated Design Guidelines & Software Components: A Foundation for Educational Software Research and Development

虽然教育技术社区已经生产了一些确实提供必要支持的软件，但是没有系统的设计指导方针，开发人员可以借鉴，其他研究人员可以在此基础上进行经验评估。因此，我们需要的是一套理论上合理、经验上合理的精心设计指南，用于构建计算支架和支撑，使儿童能够在进行科学探究时使用计算工具。来自密歇根大学、西北大学、南伊利诺伊大学、西伊利诺伊大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学的多学科研究小组提出了一个为期三年的努力，以产生这样一个学习型设计指南目录（LSDG）。同样，我们建议创建软件组件（JavaBeans）来实例化其中的一些准则；我们建议将这些组件作为开源软件提供，并将它们贡献给各种在线教育组件库。

While the educational technology community has produced some software that does indeed provide the necessary support, there is no systematic body of design guidelines that are empirically assessed that developers can draw on, and that other researchers can build on. What is needed, then, is a theoretically-rationalized, empirically-justified set of finely-articulated design guidelines for constructing computational scaffolds and supports that enable children to use computational tools as they carry out a science inquiry. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Southern Illinois University, Western Illinois University, and Pennsylvania State University propose a three-year effort to produce such a catalog of learning-situated design guidelines (LSDG). As well, we propose creating software components (JavaBeans) that instantiate some of those guidelines; we propose making these components available as open source software, and contributing them to various online educational component libraries.