What is Instructional Design

LET'S LOOK AT ADDIE MODEL

ADDIE – is an abbreviation, which contains five main phases of the model:

Analysis
Design
Development
Implementation
Evaluation

ADDIE model can be used to help you whether you are at the stage of planning for the whole program or planning at the course level. I would highly recommend this website which provides a comprehensive step-by-step walk-through on the ADDIE model.

The ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) is an iterative process used by instructional designers to carefully consider all of the elements leading to the best result. While some instructional designers might dismiss ADDIE as a throwback approach that limits creativity, there’s something to be said for doing everything you can to get it right the first time.

In ADDIE the design team carefully considers each step before moving onto the next one: imagine a writer penning several drafts of a chapter, creating a mountain of balled up pages before they’re satisfied—then repeating the process again for each chapter. Let’s take a look at each step.

ANALYZE

This phase requires a complete analysis of the instructional goals and objectives. The team is hammering out answers to these questions – and more:

What’s the learning environment?

Who is the learners?

What problem are you trying to solve?

What are the expectations?

How do learners prefer to learn?

design

Now that you know your audience, the next step in the ADDIE model is to think about creating a course that fills in the gaps. This is where you:

Determine learning objectives
Create content outlines
Develop scripts
Select the user interface and environment (web based? LMS? Face-to face instruction? Gamification? Instructional storytelling? mLearning? Videos? A blended learning approach?)
Map out time frames for each activity
Choose the course progression (linear or based on skill achievement? Can learners opt out of parts of the course through assessment? Can learners go at their own pace?)
Choose the assessment method

develop

Ready, set, action! Now it’s time to bring those storyboards to life. Look back at the previous steps to make sure you’re focusing on your audience and the best way to reach them. This is where you create a prototype for the customer to make sure you’re on the right track. If you get the green light, start creating course content—videos, audio, animations, assessments, graphics, hands-on tasks, instructional guides, multimedia presentations—whatever the team determined was the best delivery method in the DESIGN phase. This is also where you choose the look and feel of the course, which includes fonts, colors, and other design elements that reflect the learning environment culture.

implement

It’s time to present and teach the course material to your learners. Here, you’re not only paying attention to learners’ (and instructors’, if that applies) reactions to the course itself, you’re also looking at whether the delivery method is working. Were there hiccups in accessing the LMS? Did learners have adequate wi-fi coverage? Were the instructors prepared? Did learners need constant guidance? Did the assessments tell you what you needed to know? Did the learners achieve the learning outcomes you set out to achieve?

evaluate

You paid attention to everything you learned in the implementation stage and delivered the course. So, how’d you do? Did the learners learn what you wanted them to learn? Were they able to apply new skills? Were they motivated to learn? You can find out by checking assessment targets through the LMS, surveying learners and instructors, conducting interviews—whatever method you choose to get feedback.

Based on that feedback, you can evaluate whether or not you achieved the goals you identified in the ANALYSIS phase, and, based on the answer, either forge ahead, make a few tweaks, or begin the ADDIE process anew.

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ADDIE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN MODEL

In the field of E-Learning, there are several models/methodologies for instructional design developing, but undoubtedly the ADDIE model is the most popular.

The widespread popularity of ADDIE, as a methodology, is primarily due to its simplicity, flexibility and versatility. The learning model will allow you to analyze all the information through the observation of the response, the learning process and the behaviour of the students.

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