At FunLMS!™, we try to make teaching and learning as simple and fun as possible. To help course managers provide the most effective content and teaching delivery, we've developed a few common instructional design models, as well as a checklist which you can review while designing your courses. We hope you find this information to be helpful! Also, take a look at the links on the right side of the page for more help.
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The ADDIE Model- Analysis
- Identify the audience
- Define learning objectives
- Determine delivery options
- Establish a timeline for implementation
- Design
- Document the instructional and technical design strategy
- Consider the user experience
- Make a prototype
- Development
- Create the content and technical implementation of the course
- Test your design
- Revise your design based on tester feedback
- Implementation
- Ensure that course logistics are ready (books, supplies, login credentials)
- Prepare learners for the learning environment
- Delivery your training!
- Evaluation
- Provide your users with opportunities to submt feedback during and after the course
- Test your design
- Evaluate successes based on student achievement around objectives
The Rapid Prototyping Model
- Define concepts and objectives of design
- Create a simple prototype
- Allow users to evaluate the prototype
- Refine the prototype based on user feedback
- Allow users to evaluate the refined design
- Refine the prototype based on user feedback, etc., etc...
Instructional design checklist
- Have you conducted a needs assessment?
- Have you identified the target audience and what their particular learning needs are?
- Are you relating course lessons to real-world applications?
- Have you conducted a needs assessment?
- Do you have measurable, documented learning objectives?
- Do your objectives match the design and outline of your course?
- Have you clearly described the course objectives and outline to your students?
- Do your course activities support the objectives?
- Do your activities allow sufficient interaction with course concepts so that students can develop practical skill?
- Do you test student knowledge AND application of course concepts?
- Have you defined course vocabulary?
- Does the content and design immediately grab the attention of students?
- Are course activities appropriate the the desired educational outcome?
- Do you provide feedback to students immediately after they complete a knowledge assessment?
- Does the sequence of course activities flow logically and build progressively?
- Do you provide sufficient examples as to demonstrate the required knowledge and applications?
- Have you related the course concepts to your target audience's typical life or professional experiences in a way that makes the concepts meaningful and memorable?
- Is your content free of grammatical errors and typos?
- If you have offered this course before, have your revised the course recently to reflect changing needs of your students or previous evaluations you have received from students?