ENGAGING TEACHERS IN A DBIR COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP ICT-ENABLED PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS

In this chapter, a new attempt to create a design-based implementation research (DBIR) community, where researchers and practitioners collaboratively negotiate and achieve goals to address the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration, was reported. Our efforts to develop teachers’ Information and communications technology (ICT) problem-solving skills by making scenario-based design (SBD) as the focus of the DBIR research–practice partnership were discussed in this chapter. An experimental case was designed to illustrate the implementation of an SBD approach to drive online collaborative design activities among participating teachers in the DBIR community to develop their collaborative problem-solving (CPS) skills. Results of the study indicated that after four weeks of scenario design activities, teachers’ problem-solving skills were enhanced, and teachers were motivated to engage in a large number of CPS behaviors throughout the design process.