Instructional Design is a strategic planning process when developing online content. An Instructional Designer can help you connect the dots to form a clear picture of teaching and learning events. I have been an Instructional Designer for many years, however, I was a faculty member first. Learning Instructional Design processes was very helpful in meeting my students needs and teaching my concepts with engaging strategies. Content and design always come first but I struggled with how to use technology to enhance what I was teaching. Using different Instructional Design models helped me determine what the outcomes and objectives were and allowed me to create some strategies of instructional methods that I hadn't thought of before.
One of those Instructional Design models is called ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate). This is just a model to help us think about how a course should be designed and serves as a project management tool;
not specific learning theories.
Analyze: Pre-planning; thinking about the course
- Design of course
- Audience
- Goal
- Objectives
- Identify content
- Instructional Strategies
- Assessment Strategies
- Formative Evaluation
- Constraints
Design: Design your course on paper
- Name the learning units of Instruction
- Identify content and strategies for an individual unit of instruction
- Write instructions for the learning unit
- Name the menu items for a learning module
Develop: Develop course materials and assemble the course
- Based on design phase
- Build content, assignments, assessments
- Build course structure
- Upload content
Implement: Begin teaching
- Overview of course
- Expectations
- Initiate instruction
- Interaction
- Ask for feedback early on (formative evaluation)
Evaluate: Look at the course outcomes with a critical eye
- Did the students achieve expected learning outcomes?
- What have you learned?
- How can you make the course better?
As you begin thinking about the upcoming Spring semester, please feel free to contact me for help in designing your online courses. I would be glad to help you brainstorm instructional methods and evaluation methods. Using an instructional design model is a sure way to produce a quality course and meet your students needs. For more information, contact Anna J. Catterson, Ph.D. at acatters@emporia.edu
Raleigh Way.
(2015, 12 07). Retrieved from ADDIE: http://raleighway.com/addie/index.htm
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