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The distributed developmental network - d2n: a social configuration to support design pattern generation

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DiSessa et al. (2004) conducted a comparative study of how research teams design, develop and evaluate TEL software, in the context of component-based educational programming. They identified the issue of the social configuration of the production team as “a critical family of issues that are easily marginalized” (p.117). These social configurations are loosely equivalent to what Activity Theorists refer to as the rules and division of labour (Engeström, 1987) in the activity system of TEL production. DiSessa et al. (2004) studied four such configurations in detail and noted their relationship with the evolution of the technology and its use. These models suggest different ways of bringing the various participants involved in TEL development together. Based on the definition of interdisciplinarity (van den Besselaar and Heimeriks, 2001; Gibbons, 1994), in this chapter we detail how to support participants from different disciplines to work together in small, product-oriented groups, using design patterns. Our patterns were developed in the context of the Learning patterns for the design and deployment of mathematical games project, funded under the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence of the European Union. Our primary aim was to develop patterns that worked at the interface between disciplines. They were focused on pragmatic ways to have teachers and technologists productively engage with each other. Furthermore, many patterns were developed from the use of particular tools in educational contexts, where the tools were developed from scratch as outputs of research projects. There was a reflection in the patterns of the need for participants to understand each others’ practices in order to achieve integrated development. DiSessa et al. (ibid) reflect on the fact that teachers can find it “difficult and sometimes intimidating to participate as equal contributors in a technology-based development process” and suggest that effective management of collaboration can address this problem. As distinct from DiSessa’s four models, we identified a somewhat more complex emerging structure, that of a development network, where distributed groups with local expertise use a pattern language to share their expertise, sometimes in collaborative long-term projects, sometimes in ad-hoc exchanges. A detailed analysis of this model is presented in this chapter. What is clear at this stage is that a successful model needs to empower all partners in the design process, avoiding ‘producer-consumer’ and ‘sage-laymen’ relationships.
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hal-00588746 , version 1 (10-05-2011)

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Niall Winters, Yishay Mor, Dave Pratt. The distributed developmental network - d2n: a social configuration to support design pattern generation. Peter Goodyear & Simos Retalis. Technology-enhanced learning: Design Patterns and Pattern Languages, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp.n/a, 2008. ⟨hal-00588746⟩

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