ADDIE for Librarians

I have had this idea for a while to put together some library training or MOOCs. One of my ideas is to do the LibGuides Summer Project (see last week's post) for a larger audience of librarians at other institutions. The other idea that I have been kicking around with a few people was for an ADDIE online workshop or MOOC where people complete an entire tutorial or instructional design project over the course of 6 weeks over a summer. If you are not familiar with it, ADDIE is a general instructional design process. The letters of ADDIE stand for analysis, design, develop, implement, and evaluate. These are the basic stages that a person or team will go through as they are creating a tutorial, planning a class, or otherwise creating instruction. It looks a little something like this:

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ADDIE requires evaluation throughout, so it is not a linear, step-by-step process. Each week for the next 5 weeks, I will look at the different stages of ADDIE in this blog by following a project through the process. Here is a preview of what you will read about every week.

Analyze: determining the audience, format, timeline, etc. Basically, your project planning phase.
Design: writing learning objectives, scripts, and storyboards.
Develop: this is the actual creation of tutorials or instruction.
Implement: rolling the instruction out to the actual users.
Evaluate: assessment of the students; additionally can be used throughout to fix issues in the instruction.

This is a whirlwind overview of ADDIE, but I look forward to going into greater detail about it with you over the coming weeks.