This NATO volume in the Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology presents results on the comprehensive systems design approach for improving educational systems. It is based on a workshop organized as a transdisciplinary interaction of design science, organizational/systems science, and educational technology.

Inhalt
Systems Design: A Creative Response to the Current Educational Predicament.- Principles of Educational Systems Design.- Structuring the Program of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop: An Architecture of Decision-Oriented Disciplined Enquiry.- Education as a Process of Increasing Access to Societal Resources: Design and Methodology.- Human Learning and Its Relation to Evolution and Needs Satisfaction: Implications for the Design of Educational Systems.- The Empirical Grounding of System Performance Measurements.- The Designing Community: A Learning Community.- Definition of Education and Meta-Design of Educational Systems.- Assessing the Adequacy of a Social System Design.- Design Inquiry as an Intellectual Technology for the Design of Educational Systems.- The Evolution of a Design Approach: A Historical Perspective and Its Relevance to the Design of Educational Systems.- Surrendering to the Environment in Educational System Design.- 'Jumping Out' of the Existing System During Design Genesis: Penetrating the Anxiety Barrier.- Designing Value-Based Educational Systems.- Retrospective Design Analysis: A New Educational Technology.- The Application of Systems Thinking to the Design of Educational Systems.- A Systems-Approach Knowledge Base for Education.- Approaches and Methods of Systems Design: Critical Pedagogy.- A Systems View of Restructuring Education.- Openness in a General Process Model for Systems Design in Education.- School Reform Movements: Tinkering with the System.- Characteristics of Educational Systems and Their Development: A Contribution to Understanding Differences in System in Europe and the United States.- Applying Systems Theory Through the Lens of Learning: What Does Learning Research Say?.- The Next Step in Educational Systems Design: SomeContributions From Learning Systems Design.- Learning Systems: Is There a Need for Change?.- Systems Design Guidelines for Change.- A Conceptual Framework for Systems Design of Education.- Hypersystems: A Base for Specification of Computer-Supported Self-Learning Social Systems.- New Educational Technologies Cannot be Fully Integrated in Existing Educational Systems.- Educational Technology Planning: Scanning the North American K-12 Education Environment.- Index of Authors.