Each year the Design and Technology SIG has two awards: Outstanding Design Case Award and the Outstanding Research Paper Award. Winners are notified prior to the AERA conference and presented with an award during the SIG business meeting.
This year's winners are:
Presented to: Stephanie A. West, Heather Francis, Cally Flox, Brenda Beyal, Emily Soderborg, Jason K. McDonald (Brigham Young University)
Presented to: Keunjae Kim and Kyungbin Kwon (Indiana University)
Design case “is a description of a real artifact or experience that has been intentionally designed” (Boling, 2010, p. 2). In contrast to traditional empirical scholarship (quantitative, qualitative, mixed), a design case uniquely contributes to the learning theories, process, tensions, and ensuing processes that impact the design of the interface. In doing so, a design case provides scholarship in terms of new knowledge about the design process and how theory is enacted within an interface to address a learning need.
To recognize and promote research and innovation in design and technology scholarship and education.
The Outstanding Design Case Award commissioned by the AERA Design & Technology SIG highlights scholarly contributions and advancements in design scholarship.
This award recognizes research innovations in design and technology that are presented to the AERA Design & Technology SIG for the annual AERA conference. Specifically, the award recognizes empirical scholarship (qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, literature review, meta analysis, etc) that provide significant contributions to the field as it relates towards understanding the role of design in supporting learning outcomes when using technology.
"Democracy for All OER Book: A Design Case"
Presented to Torrey Trust, Robert Maloy, Viacheslav Yurchenkov (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
"The process of developing a digital repository for online teaching using design-based research"
Presented to Jennifer Richardson, Daniela Castellano Reyes, Shamila Janakiraman, Mohammad Shams Ud Duha (Purdue University)
"Designing for self-efficacy: E-mentoring training for ethnic and racial minority women in STEM"
Presented to Jaclyn Gish-Lieberman, Amanda Rockinson-Szapkiw, Andrew Tawfik, Theresa Theiling (University of Memphis)
"A comparison of children's reading on paper versus screen: A meta-analysis"
Presented to May Irene Furenes (University of Stavanger), Natalia Kucirkova (University of Stanger and The Open University UK), Adriana Bus (University of Stavanger and ELTE Eötvös Loránd University)