Share Paper: Challenges in Developing Authentic, Multi-University, Cross-Disciplinary, Design-Based Courses, Part 1

  1. Christopher DiGiano, SRI International, United States
  2. Shelley Goldman, Stanford, United States
  3. Alexander Repenning, UC Boulder, United States
  4. Clayton Lewis, UC Boulder, United States
  5. Angela Booker, Stanford, United States
  6. Emma Mercier, Stanford, United States
  7. Jeff Huang, SRI International, United States
  8. Mark Chung, SRI International, United States
  9. Jennifer Knudsen, SRI International, United States
  10. Michael Chorost, SRI International, United States
  11. Jody Underwood, Educational Testing Service, United States
  12. Yael Kali, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  13. Christopher Hoadley, Pennsylvania State University, United States
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 ...