Daniel Rees LewisNorthwestern University | NU · Segal Design Institute
Daniel Rees Lewis
Doctor of Philosophy
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Intelligent tutors based on expert systems often struggle to provide formative feedback on complex, ill-defined problems where answers are unknown. Hybrid crowdsourcing systems that combine the intelligence of multiple novices in face-to-face settings might provide an alternate approach for providing intelligent formative feedback. The purpose of t...
Since the first descriptions of design research (DR), there have been calls to better define it to increase its rigour. Yet five uncertainties remain: (1) the processes for conducting DR, (2) how DR differs from other forms of research, (3) how DR differs from design, (4) the products of DR, and (5) why DR can answer certain research questions more...
p class="normal">Design research (DR) promises to simultaneously solve practical problems of education and develop theory to guide future interventions. However, educational DR remains paradigmatically underdeveloped, making it difficult to train new researchers, to agree upon what makes a theoretical contribution, and to promise clear outputs to f...
Creativity support tools help learners undertake creative work, such as facilitating coaching by creative professionals. How might we design creativity support tools that in-crease learners' access to coaching by creative professionals? This study took place in an extracurricular project-based learning program where students were co-located, and me...
Since the first descriptions of design-based research (DBR), there have been continued calls to better define DBR and increase its rigor. Here we address four uncertainties about DBR: (a) the phases of the DBR process, (b) what distinguishes DBR from other forms of research, (c) what distinguishes DBR from design, and (d) the characteristics of DBR...
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Patients newly diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (diabetes), who require insulin must acquire diabetes “survival” skills prior to discharge home. COVID-19 revealed considerable limitations of traditional in-person, time-intensive delivery of diabetes education and survival skills training (diabetes survival skills training). Furthermore,...
Educational Design Research (EDeR) methodologists argue that iteration is a core component of EDeR (McKenney & Reeves, 2018). Iteration is currently defined as a process of gathering more information through actions, such as testing, and using that information to improve the design (Hoadley & Campos, 2022). In this paper, we seek to tighten the def...
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Background
To create design solutions experienced engineering designers engage in expert iterative practice. Researchers find that students struggle to learn this critical engineering design practice, particularly when tackling real‐world engineering design problems.
Purpose/Hypothesis
To improve our ability to teach iteration, this study contribu...
One-to-many coaching is a common, yet difficult, coaching technique used in environments with many novices learning to solve ill-defined problems. Intelligent systems might be designed to support 1-to-many coaching but designing such systems requires a 1-to-many coaching model that details novices' challenges, coaches' strategies, and coaches' goal...
Design research (DR), or design-based research, has become a foundational methodology of the Learning Sciences, but the field has yet to precisely define what design research is. This contributes to a lower paradigm field, where there is less consensus about the goals, output, guiding theories, methods of research, and
even the name. Our purpose he...
Theoretical lens: We take a reflective practitioner lens (Schon, 1984) which views design practice as a process of back-talk, in which the designer engages with and reacts to the design situation. Research question: Can increasing cadence and slicing encourage K-12 teachers doing lesson study to engage in more iterative reflective practices? Contex...
Human-Centered Design (HCD) is a growing field that has the potential to positively impact students' learning. A general consensus on the terms, practices, scaffolds, and assessments of HCD can foster its effective implementation in K-12 and post-secondary education. This session brings together researchers whose work is focused on implementing HCD...
Learning diabetes mellitus (DM) survival skills is critically important, especially for those newly diagnosed upon discharge. COVID-19 has created new educational challenges, as DM self-management education and support is difficult to deliver remotely and can be time intensive. Content and format have not been re-designed for remote delivery; howev...
This study highlights an opportunity for novice-based collective intelligence efforts to tackle increasingly complex, ill-structured tasks—a necessary condition for mobilizing broad sectors of society to solve societal problems through collective intelligence. Specifically, we offer initial evidence that collective intelligence efforts that rely pr...
Educational Design-Based Research (DBR) methodologists stress that DBR teams should iterate in order to create desirable designs and impactful theory. Effective iteration helps DBR teams understand stakeholder goals and quickly reject both designs stakeholders do not want and less impactful theory. However, we in the learning sciences have not defi...
To investigate how we might expand learning environments to include professionals to coach students enacting disciplinary practices, we created StandUp, a socially-shared regulation of learning (SSRL) system. We implemented StandUp in an undergraduate design program with 3 student teams and 5 volunteer professionals. We captured 12 online coaching...
Design disciplines require iteratively defining the problem, and building and testing solutions-consequently design requires regularly planning. However, we do not have frameworks to assess design planning. We propose Team Planning Trajectories (TPT)-a technology assisted formative assessment framework for planning in design classrooms.
Authentic project-based learning (APBL) is a highly effective way for instructors to help students learn disciplinary skills, modes of thinking, and collaborative practices by creating solutions to real-world problems for real users and clients. While educational technology innovations can bolster APBL by making a promising but challenging pedagogy...
Novices learn innovation best through project-based learning (PBL), working in face-to-face teams to tackle real-world problems. Yet, real-world projects are complex, stressful, and especially challenging for novices. Online communities could provide social support to motivate novices, but it is unclear how to design online communities to support f...
Solving real-world highly ill-structured problems involves iteration: gathering information, building, testing, and revising products, experiments, and theories. However, we do not know how to create learning environments to teach iteration for highly ill-structured problems. How might we help student teams effectively iterate for highly ill-struct...
Across domains from science to civics, experts plan to solve real-world problems iteratively. Despite the importance of strategic iteration, we lack precise understandings of effective iterative planning and novice challenges, making it difficult to assess formatively and therefore to teach. We conducted design-based research to understand iterativ...
Learning communities (LCs) can provide authentic, social learning experiences but require an extensive amount of time and effort to orchestrate, often more than instructors can provide in typical university courses. Extracurricular, undergraduate, student-led learning communities (SLLCs) overcome this cost through volunteer peer-instructors. Unfort...
We may be able to educate social designers who can design for human needs through social innovation networks (SINs). SINs engage in three interrelated activities of: supporting design teams’ project-based learning, supporting the leadership in studio-based learning communities, and continuous network improvement. SINs face challenges in diffusing s...
To provide the substantial support required for project-based learning (PBL), educators can incorporate professional experts as design coaches. However, previous work shows barriers incorporating design coaches who can rarely meet face-to-face: (a) communication online is time-consuming, (b) updating coaches online is not perceived as valuable, (c)...
Undergraduate research experiences enhance learning and professional development, but providing effective and scalable research training is often limited by practical implementation and orchestration challenges. This paper intro- duces Agile Research Studios (ARS)—a socio-technical system that expands research training opportunities by support- ing...
Undergraduate research experiences enhance learning and professional development, but providing effective and scalable research training is often limited by practical implementation and orchestration challenges. We demonstrate Agile Research Studios (ARS)---a socio-technical system that expands research training opportunities by supporting research...
Design research educators give students real-world problems to prepare them to innovate upon graduation. Educators typically spend significant time scoping real- world projects for students. Furthermore, students should graduate with the ability to scope projects. By supporting students to scope we can simultaneously teach a vital ability and reduc...
Design research educators give students real-world problems to prepare them to innovate upon graduation. Educators typically spend significant time scoping real-world projects for students. Furthermore, students should graduate with the ability to scope projects. By supporting students to scope we can simultaneously teach a vital ability and reduce...
Groups of novice critiquers can sometimes provide feedback of the same quality as a single expert. Unfortunately, we do not know how to create systems for novice group critique in design education. We tested whether 4 principles: write-first scripts, critique prompts, interactive critiquing & formative framing, allow us to create systems that combi...
Civic innovators design real-world solutions to societal problems. Teaching civic innovation presents serious challenges in classroom orchestration because facilitators must manage a complex learning environment (which may include community partners, open-ended problems and long time scales) and cannot rely on traditional classroom orchestration te...