By Jingjing Lin
Instructional Design

Quickly Implement eLearning From What You Have: ADDIE Model In Practice

How To Use The ADDIE Instructional Design Model

How To Use The ADDIE Instructional Design Model

Learn How To Effectively Use And Implement The ADDIE Instructional Design Model

For instance, you can export a PPT file into a motive GIF file with a specific interval of seconds. You can give an online presentation by sharing the link with your audience. Or you can record your presentation as a video and publish it on YouTube. You can also convert a PPT file into a PDF file and then into an audio file. For non-native English speakers, this approach can save time and reduce costs regarding the vocal narration of video lectures. In other words, if you only know how to use PPT, you can start teaching online! But this article does not stop with PPT, it also guides you on how to adopt the ADDIE Instructional Design model and use the 5 stages to implement eLearning. I intend to share some personal experiences about teaching online to instructors worldwide who are new to eLearning.

Purpose Of Education

All learning falls into three categories: knowledge, skill, and attitude. It means that all teachings—either online, offline, or blended—should strive to improve the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of students. A teacher should consider educational aims and the learning outcomes (preferably measurable) when designing a course.

Try to answer the following questions:

ADDIE Instructional Design Model

What you have been through above is part of the Instructional Design experience. One of the most famous Instructional Design models is the ADDIE model. It consists of 5 stages:

  1. Analyze
  2. Design
  3. Develop
  4. Implement
  5. Evaluate

Each stage has a deliverable that feeds into the next stage and includes opportunities to gather feedback that informs training development. Let's go through these 5 stages below.

1. Analyze

There are different types of eLearning courses, with some being information-based and some being performance-based. As the subject expert, you have to consider choosing online solutions based on the content being delivered. For instance, if you are teaching programming, you need to involve programming practices to constantly provide feedback on students’ exercises. If you are teaching statistics, you may need to demonstrate how-to operations/calculations by screen sharing, whiteboard writing, or using pre-recorded video tutorials.

Other things that you should pay attention to during this stage are:

What media will you use to deliver the knowledge? In the traditional way, it can be textbooks, handouts, PPT on the screen, etc. In the environment of eLearning, we have to distinguish the two following types of learning objects.

In general, a successful eLearning experience is often a blend of different types of resources and activities.

2.Design 

In this stage, we build content—the flesh and bones of your course. There are 2 basic levels that you need to consider when designing a course. Use the following structure as a reference.

1. Course-level properties:

2. Unit-level properties:

Let’s Structure Content Now

What learning objects and sequences are you using? Building from scratch can be a tedious job. So, consider using eLearning templates. Templates always help to quickly draft eLearning for your students. A lot of eLearning templates are based on the tools that they were developed with, such as Articulate, Adobe Captivate, Lectora, etc. And you have to understand how to use this software in order to purchase these templates from different sources, such as eLearning Bros, FasterCourse or Rapid eLearning templates.

eLearning Toolkit

Any creative work needs suitable tools. eLearning development needs a toolkit.

All the examples of tools above are to demonstrate the diversity of tools that can be useful to an eLearning teacher who needs to develop and distribute their own teaching online.

View The Internet As A Gigantic Reservoir

Often we can use existing resources in our own courses. The internet is a gigantic power bank you can use to charge your course in order to boost its richness and diversity. Look for content that is open-sourced and under a CC license to use in your course. For instance, you can look for images on websites such as Pixabay, Unsplash, Pexels, Freeimages; look for icons on websites such as Flaticon, Icons8, Iconfinder, Freeicons; look for videos on YouTube or Vimeo; look for textbooks on b-ok.cc or gutenberg.org; or look for scholarly articles on sci-hub.ren.

3. Develop

Let’s talk about containers now. Where will you publish your eLearning content?

Platforms To Host Your eLearning

If your organization already has course management systems, like Blackboard, Moodle, etc., you will just need to consult with the technical team for support and follow the organizational arrangement. What you need in this case is to deliver what the organization wants. If you want to do more, consider visiting documentation of the corresponding platforms for more guidance. If your organization didn’t help much in facilitating the transformation, then I have some advice for you below.

Set Up Your Own Course Management System

If you are familiar with domain hosting and how to install an online app on a hosting server and link the installed app to a specific domain, you can easily set up a Moodle-based course management system. It can offer what you need for your class all in one place.

Another choice is using WordPress. Unlike Moodle, WordPress is a tool used to build apps, blogs, or static websites. But it can be heavily enhanced by installing additional plugins, which can instantly transform a blog into an online class.

Use External Course Management Systems

There are also some online course hosting sites that allow instructors to publish their courses, such as Udemy, Easyclass, Rcampus, and P2PU.

Use Standalone Features

If you do not want to deal with all the above-mentioned platforms that integrate many features in one place, you can also deliver simplified eLearning by only using standalone features. For example, you can create a PPT and use the “Present online” free feature built in the PPT app. It will generate a web link that your students can open in their browser and use to watch the presentation when you play the slides synchronously. To communicate this kind of flow, you can email your students in advance explaining the steps to follow in your teaching.

Place Your Designed Content In The Container

To summarize, this step is used to put all the content developed from the previous step into the container that you have chosen. You have to make sure to test the whole flow before moving on to the next step. It will be stressful to see a broken link or have a malfunction in your presentation when delivering your class online.

4. Implement

This step is to "officially" teach your students online. Important notes include:

(Source: Lin, 2018)

5. Evaluate

This step allows you to reflect on the whole experience, collect data (pre-course questionnaire and post-course questionnaire), and students’ performance results in different assessment activities, etc. You can look at all these qualitative and quantitative course results and think about how to improve them in the next iteration.

Conclusion

This article shares my personal experience of designing eLearning for online learners using the ADDIE Instructional Design model. It shows the 5 steps of the eLearning design and development process, along with different tools that can be useful for eLearning instructors. I hope this article can help teachers who are in search of "how to prepare to teach online."

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