Share Paper: Challenges in Developing Authentic, Multi-University, Cross-Disciplinary, Design-Based Courses, Part 1
Friday, July 1 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Ballroom East
Abstract: In this symposium, a consortium of researchers and faculty reports on an innovative program where multidisciplinary teams of university students work together to create educational software intended for real classroom use. This innovation is taking place under the aegis of an NSF-supported project called TRAILS, or Training and Resources for Assembling Interactive Learning Systems. Courses supported by TRAILS address an authentic and critical area of need—the development of high-quality software for K-12 education. Researchers from several universities will report research findings and lessons learned from the TRAILS courses that have been taught to date, including findings from the development of ...