What's your take on Instructional Design? do you even bother with it? Which model do you follow, if any?
I like to consider myself a loose subscriber to theADDIE model with a heavy handed nod to Cathy Moore's take on Action Mapping
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I take the view that no model is likely scientifically correct or perfect but that a pragmatic approach to using any model is better than none at all! Until recently I found ADDIE mostly did the job. Now I find that it's increasingly difficult to use the approach systematically when I'm working with agile developers (I design a lot of bespoke application training). It works better with very traditionally managed development work. I think with more experience I'll find a way round this or look at another approach.
Hi Nick, hope you are well! I am a big fan of Cathy Moore's approach too, I am sure you've seen these videos before but thought them worth a share on your thread for anyone that hasn't
Five clips at 5 mins each, a really valuable way to spend half an hour!
Cathy Moore video clips
Duncan
Hi Nick,
I'm a huge fan of the ADDIE model. I hadn't come across Cathy Moore's take on Action Mapping before but I enjoyed reading that so thanks for sharing.
Irrespective of whether I'm doing instructional design for training on or offline, I really like the ADDIE model. I often use this to explain to business stakeholders I'm partnering with the approach to learning programmes for a particular project. I've just come off a conference call and used this model to talk through the stages of a particular project from a learning perspective. I find this useful at an early stage, particularly given that the "E" Evaluation piece is often overlooked. The old "start with the end in mind" phrase comes to mind!
I also like the fact that the D and D comes in two halves. Design and Development. For me, there is a slight difference between the two. The "D" Design for me is all about designing a specification of the overall learning solution, be that an eLearning piece, or a training course, or a programme. That spec sheet is signed off by the stake-holders before the "D" Development piece kicks in and the "do is done" on designing the content and material. Particularly from an eLearning point of view, we do this to ensure that the costs of our animators, voiceover artists, course developers, progammers and illustrators isn't inflated by them spending time designing something that people didn't want in the first place. The same goes for face to face learning. It's always heart crunchingly devastating when you've spent time working on some content and a course only to find out from your stakeholder that's not what they wanted!
So I love (after all it's valentines day) the ADDIE model and this is definitely the one I use in my practice. Interestingly, the care sector have a similar framework for putting in place care plans for those they work with. They call it A-PIE standing for Assess, Plan, Implement and Evaluate...
Seems like the simple models win the day!
I really enjoyed looking at them And now I realise I use a bit of both.
Adaptations are that i use flipchart paper, stickies and pens rather than pc to do the initial thinking/ mindmap/ action planning type design. It makes it easier where i work to involve others. We have a low level of computer literacy where i work.
Also I always pilot a new approach before rolling out widely to the staff.
(I didn't see this mentioned in the models - it may be implicit or assumed as a given of course.)
All good fun!
Thanks again for posting :)
Thanks for the reply Alison, glad you got some use from the links.
I don't think it matters how or where you do your planning/brainstorming, as long as you do it. whatever you need to get the job done. You can always work in analog and transfer to digital later. I sometimes collaboratively brainstorm on flipchart or a whiteboard and then take a photo and throw it into Evernote, where it becomes searchable etc (evernote converts the text in the image to searchable text).
I think you could fit a pilot into almost any stage of any model. I guess bottom line is even for a pilot it's getting delivered so you're going to be able to evaluate and re-visit after your pilot to improve etc, so the cycle just keeps going. I guess it's not strictly implicit, it's just a form of what's already there.
Thanks again for replying, it's good to hear other people's views and practices on these things.
Nick