The IDATER Conference Online has been managed and run by the Design Education Research Group at Loughborough University since 1988 – DERG is part of Loughborough Design School. During its 22 year history there have been a wide variety of conference research topics with the most recent being E-Learning, Action Research and the most recent addition Graphicacy and Modelling.
Simcoemedia was asked to create a website that would enable users to sign up to the site, add and edit papers and comment upon published items. The WordPress engine has been used to great effect here both in presentation and allowing administrators of the site flexibility in how they publish their documents.
Design Education Research Group leader, Eddie Norman said:
We’re able to take the IDATER Online Conference to the next level now by giving users and administrators greater flexibility than ever. Simcoemedia has created an attractive and usable site that should give the next series of Conferences a great head start in making a contribution to the Design Education community across the world.
As part of the production process a short video introduction to IDATER was produced by Simcoemedia to give a brief overview of Action Research and some of the forthcoming conference titles such as Graphicacy and Modelling:
