Educational Design and Development: A Study of Dutch Design Practices

Abstract

This chapter will report some preliminary findings of a study on educational design and development practices in the Netherlands. The purpose of the study is to describe the strategies that professional education and training developers use in practice. Twenty-four developers were interviewed intensively and documents of their projects were analyzed. The data show that there are many differences between developers, but that there are also several common themes. This paper discusses the most important results in both the technical-professional and socio-professional domain, as well as the overall structuring of the process.