This course focuses on exploring multi- and cross- disciplinary views of design processes to inform and engage students involved in the design and research of learning technologies in the observation and analysis of the process of design and design thinking. The course is designed to provide an opportunity for students to examine the philosophical as well as pragmatic aspects of both systematic and non-systematic approaches to design to promote inquiry, synthesis and action for the purposes of design and research. Multiple domains incorporate design processes and this course will allow students to build a deeper understanding of design as a “generative human agency.” The course will also involve students in observations of a design context, interview or hybrid ethnographic pilot study to permit reflection, generation and individual effort or collaboration toward a draft of a potentially publishable paper related to examining an aspect/context of design through a multi- and cross-disciplinary lens. Participants will share perspectives through on-line virtual discussion of the readings, carry out qualitative observations or interviews related to a design team/context, conduct a literature review on design within a particular discipline and contrast it with other perspectives on design presented by their peers in a cumulative final paper.