ABSTRACT
Engineering educators and engineering education researchers alike commit significant time and effort to the development of learning designs (e.g., courses, mentored research experiences, pedagogical innovations, etc.). This work is usually summarized briefly within the methodological sections of publications, leaving much insight covert. This chapter explores the value of sharing our learning designs in greater detail. The genre of the design case – a form of scholarship that reports on an instructional problem, the process of designing a solution, and the learning design created to address the instructional problem – can complement other forms of scholarship. The chapter illustrates the value of design cases by examining exemplars from engineering education and contrasting design cases with other dissemination methods. Finally, the chapter provides a template and practical advice for planning and crafting effective learning design cases, with attention to commonplace challenges reviewers might identify, especially related to voice and trustworthiness.
