Employing Design and Development Research (DDR) Approach in Designing Next Generation Learning Spaces (NGLS) In Teachers’ Pedagogy and Technology Tools

Abstract

Design and development research (DDR) is a systematic study of design, development, and assessment
processes with the goal of providing an empirical foundation for the production of instructional and noninstructional goods and tools, as well as new or better development models. This method employs a wide
range of methods, including qualitative and quantitative techniques, as well as a thorough examination
of the literature (Richey & Klein, 2014). The design and development of Next Generation Learning Spaces
(NGLS) in instructors' pedagogy and technological tools is described in this article. The effort in generating
new perspective in education in developing of the pedagogical framework in teachers’ pedagogy and
used of technology tools in secondary schools in Malaysia. Therefore, this research paper aims to design
and development of NGLS using design and development research (DDR) approach. Researcher will go
through three phases of study and use several different study approaches in each phase. In the first
phase, researcher was investigated teacher’ needs in their pedagogy and technology tools used in their
lessons. The phase two and three are to design and development phase which is in real setting by various
of expert’s consensus in developing the framework as well as evaluate the usability and practicality of
the framework. The expert’s consensus are the main inputs in developed the framework in context of
Malaysian education. Malaysian education has to brings in different paradigms of education and
teaching strategies (Don, Raman et al., 2015), which extend to teachers’ pedagogy and technology
tools impact by NGLS in the future. Therefore, the findings provided useful evidence of potential in
designing and development of pedagogical framework in teachers’ pedagogy and technology tools.