Handbook of Design in Educational Technology

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Re-using, Sharing and Communicating Designs and Design Knowledge Using Scenarios, Narratives and Patterns

Yishay Mor

Introduction

In order to enable a culture of critical, informed and reflective design practice we need a linguistic framework for communicating design knowledge: the knowledge of the characteristic features of a domain of practice, the challenges which inhabit it, and the established methods of resolving them. Such an infrastructure must ‘serve two masters’; on one hand, it should adhere to the requirements of scientific rigour, ensuring that the proposed conditions and challenges are genuine and the solutions effective. On the other hand, it should maintain pragmatic adequacy, ensuring that the insights it encapsulates ...