The ADDIE Design Model

The ADDIE design model is an instructional design model that helps training specialist create efficient training. The five steps in the model include all the steps necessary in training development: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. These are all equally important steps when designing good instruction. Here we will take a brief look at each of the five components to see what they each include. Links are provided at the end of each phase description for further exploration and reading.

analysis

The analysis involves answering questions such as

  • What are our goals/objectives?
  • What topics to cover?
  • Who is the audience?
  • What level is the learner at?

The analysis process defines why the training development is needed and how to ensure that the training becomes successful.

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development

Having laid a solid foundation in the analysis and design phases, the development process should run smoothly. Usually the development phase involves developing a prototype or a template (may include a storyboard, videos, animations, images, training manual pages, etc.), developing training modules, and conducting a tabletop review. This phase also involves testing of the prototype course to see if the course materials make sense to the targeted audience.

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evaluation

The evaluation phase is in place to ensure that the training was efficient and that the students learnt the materials and/or changed their behavior. Usually the evaluation process is more complicated than to answer with a simple test if the training was good or not. It involves follow up checking months after the training since some of the learning may not take effect until used for a while on the task. Evaluation is seldom easily performed in a classroom environment. The evaluation phase should answer questions such as:

  • Did the students like the training?
  • What improvements can be made to the course/training?
  • Did the training result in the set objectives/goals? Change of behavior?

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design

The design stage of the ADDIE model involves creating a blueprint, an instructional design document, for the course. This includes formulating what the course/training should look like when it's finished. It does not include the course content, but describes how the course is to be organized, how it is to be delivered, what activities and exercises are to be included and make most sense, and how the students are to be evaluated.

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implementation

In the implementation phase the course is ready to be delivered to the target audience. Materials must to be ready and handy, the delivery platform (classroom or online) must be booked/secured, ready, and stable, students must have been informed on where to go to receive the training, and instructors must be onboard and ready to run the course/training.

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