Elearning Project - ADDIE Model

ADDIE model is used to design the training for employees or participants. ADDIE stands for Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluation. Any training material has to go through these stages before it is delivered to learners. Let's explore each of these stage in briefly. 

Analysis:

This is the first stage and the most important one. If anything goes wrong in this stage, it will impact the overall training. In this stage, the training manager should gather important information of the training to conducted:

What is the purpose of the training?

Who are the audience of the training?

Will it be a classroom training or online training or mix of both?

When and where the training would be conducted?

Once you get answers of each questions, you should start gathering the content and create outline. You should chunk the content into small groups. You should able to categorise the content as per the course, module, lesson, topic, subtopic structure. 

Design:

The next stage is design. Here, you finalise the overall structure of the training. You figure out the different tasks that to be completed to deliver the training successfully and accordingly design the project plan. You look around for resources that will be best fit for this project. You define the content and visual strategy for the training. If it is elearning project, you can suggest various content strategies such as story-based, case studies, simulations, game-based, mascot driven approach. On other hand, you can suggest various visual strategies such as usage of real images or vectors images, a theme such as traveling, sport, space, etc., to present the content. You also define the visual strategies in terms of colours, icon styles, character styles, etc. 

Then, you would likely to pick up a small part of content and build a prototype. Building a prototype is an important step as it gives an idea about the client's expectations in terms visuals or animation, the flow of content, etc.