ABSTRACT
Design research in education is directed at developing, testing, implementing, and diffusing innovative practices to move the socially constructed forms of teaching and learning from malfunction to function or from function to excellence (Kelly, 2003). In this way, the open character of design together with the self-imposed constraints of research are placed in service of the growing demands of society for citizens and knowledge workers who can add to and take advantage of emerging technologies and the explosion in scientific knowledge.
