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This chapter shares the coauthors’ evolving understanding of design process, shaped by their unique individual backgrounds and collective engagement in an interdisciplinary educational software design course. Following a collaborative approach rooted in autoethnography, students and instructors examined autobiographical narratives and dialogic conversations to make meanings out of personal stories and developed a collective vision of how the course design impacted their understanding of design process. This reflective process inspired the redesign of the interdisciplinary course.
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Yang, M., Ashby, I., McCord, B., Farmer, T., Sarwar, U., Exter, M. (2021). Educational Software Design in Practice: Understanding the Power of Intersecting Disciplines on Design Process. In: Hokanson, B., Exter, M., Grincewicz, A., Schmidt, M., Tawfik, A.A. (eds) Intersections Across Disciplines. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53875-0_9
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