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Teaching as a Design Science: Teachers Building, Testing, and Sharing Pedagogic Ideas

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Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education

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Approaching teaching as a design science encourages teacher collaboration, to harness the inquiry that goes on every day in classrooms and channel it into shared knowledge that could benefit the whole community of teachers. This chapter explains what teaching as design science is, why leaders of IT should consider it when implementing IT, and how to put it into practice in their leadership of IT.

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  1. Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK

    Diana Laurillard

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Joke Voogt

  2. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA

    Gerald Knezek

  3. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA

    Rhonda Christensen

  4. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Kwok-Wing Lai

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  1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    Sara Dexter

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Laurillard, D. (2018). Teaching as a Design Science: Teachers Building, Testing, and Sharing Pedagogic Ideas. In: Voogt, J., Knezek, G., Christensen, R., Lai, KW. (eds) Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education . Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71054-9_108

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