ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on developing a repertoire so that design researchers can select and use the most fruitful and fitting approaches for a specific educational design study and draws on research investigating design across disciplines, including engineering, business, and education. It offers theoretical and practical understanding of design processes, design cognition, design thinking, design mindsets, design knowledge, and design expertise in general and related to educational design. The chapter deals with descriptions of how design and construction were undertaken in two actual educational design research projects, and an assessment tool for critiquing documents reporting on this phase of work. The processes of design and construction are systematic and intentional, but they also include inventive creativity, application of emerging insights, and openness to serendipity. Design and construction is a largely social phase, informed by analysis of data from the flanking phases and insights from literature, but also largely driven by interactions among the people doing the creating.
