What is instructional design
Instructional design is a way to plan your training program from the moment you have the idea for it until the moment you complete your revisions of your first effort and get all ready to run the program again (Piskurich, 2015). Instructional design is the practice of systematic designing, developing, and delivering instructional products to gain knowledge (Piskurich, 2015). Also, it is simply processed for helping you create an effective training inefficient manner.
ADDIE Model
It is an acronym for a five-phase course development process which includes analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation (Piskurich, 2015).
Dick and Carey Model
The Dick, Dick and Carey model is another basic instructional design model, which requires the following 9 steps. All steps refer to the Dick and Carey model below.
Sample work
ETEC544 Program
In ETEC544, my group members and I designed a program for kindergarteners. This program is designed to help kindergarteners at Barton Elementary increase their ability to read common high-frequency words by sight on the SmartBoard, which can help them meet their grade-level standards.
ETEC644 Program
In ETEC644, I designed the program to help Chinese parents to pass the USA Custom and border protection (CBP). The goal of the program is to help Chinese parents to pass CBP with no additional stress. The target audience already knows the topic focus on helping them to pass CBP independently and the instruction of the program will be delivered completely online.
After using the program, the target audience clearly understands all contents before they arrive in the USA and the content from the website of the CBP, which includes different documents to be prepared before and forbidden items. Then, they clearly understand the basic process when they are passing CBP. Also, they will clearly understand some basic questions and dialogues that CBP officials will ask.
ADDIE Model
1. Analysis
The goal is the learning solutions that match performance needs identified and analyzed (Piskurich, 2015). There is 3 approach which includes people item, document recovery, literature review.
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Who----who is your target audience
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What----what is the content of the program
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How----the method that will be used to determine what content has been delivered
2. Design
The goal is a complete design document for the learning intervention (Piskurich, 2015). This phase deal with the objectives, assessment instruments, content and lesson planning.
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Document of the project vision and design strategy
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Storyboard
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Flowchart
3. Development
The goal is that learning materials complete and intervention ready to pilot. In this process, the project is reviewed and revised according to any feedback from the target audience (Piskurich, 2015).
4. Implementation
The goal is intervention piloted and delivered (Piskurich, 2015). There are two important implementation practices which are beta-test and pilots.
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A beta test called the design test. In this phase, you will receive feedback from the audience.
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Pilots are to make sure the class will work just as you designed it when you deliver it for real.
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Difference: The designer can stop doing the beta-test in the process of the program. However, the designer cannot stop doing the pilot until you finished all program.
5. Evaluation
Instructional designers conduct formative and summative evaluations to improve their instructional design. Formative evaluation is conducted during the process of designing and developing the materials. Summative evaluation measures the effectiveness of instruction after the course has been finalized.
Reflection
According to my understanding of ETEC544, I learned how to design the program to help learners to learn and what teaching methods will help learners achieve their learning goals as efficiently as possible. Also, I learned the ADDIE model which is the basic model of instructional design and using it in my design process. This is my first time to design programs and courses related to the needs assessment of the target audience.
According to my understanding of ETEC644, I learned the Dick, Carey, and Carey model which is the basic model of instructional design and how to use it in my design process.
Reference
Piskurich, G. (2015). Rapid Instructional Design: Learning ID Fast and Right. (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey.
Dick, W., Carey, L. & Carey, J. (2015). Systematic Design of Instruction, (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.