Design as Scholarship in the Learning Sciences is an informative resource on current design practices and its many obstacles. Through a robust collection of case studies, it provides instructive reference points and important principles for more successful projects.

ContentsPrefaceTimothy KoschmannAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Untold storiesVanessa Svihla & Richard ReeveChapter 2. Designing the Collaboratory Notebook: "Building the future, the night before it’s due"D. Kevin O’NeillChapter 3. Designing for ActivityJoshua Danish, Noel Enyedy, Asmalina Saleh & Christine LeeChapter 4. The Challenge and Promise of Community Co-designLeah Teeters, A. Susan Jurow & Molly SheaChapter 5. Living in the Fourth Quadrant: Valuing the Process of DesignBrian K. SmithChapter 6. Looking under the hood: Productive messiness in design for argumentation in science, literature and historyMon-Lin Ko, Susan R. Goldman, Joshua Radinsky, Katherine James, Allison Hall, Jacquelynn Popp, Michael Bolz & MariAnne GeorgeChapter 7. Reciprocal research & design: the wicked problem of changing math in the familyShelley Goldman & Osvaldo JiménezChapter 8. Designing the Connected Chemistry CurriculumMike Stieff & Stephanie RyanChapter 9. Making it Real: Transforming a University and Museum Research Collaboration into a Design ProductPalmyre Pierroux & Rolf SteierChapter 10. Reflections on Design StoriesTowards design practice as a first-class research activityJanet KolodnerIterations on a designerly science Bo T. ChristensenDesigning: The unseen dimension of our scholarshipRichard Reeve & Vanessa Svihla