Understanding and explicating the design experiment methodology

We are now conducting an extensive study, funded by the National Science Foundation, to investigate the parameters, capabilities and distinctiveness of design experiments. The goal of the project is to explicate a design experiment methodology that advances the overall goal of understanding and improving teaching and learning. This task will consume the three years of the grant (and likely will extend beyond it, in practice). The goal is to study the nature of how innovations in the sciences, their computational infrastructure, and their implementations in education should be constructed - so as to be educative to scholars and practitioners.