Sometimes the negative teaches us more!

Michael Trucano wrote a very meaningful blogpost for the World bank on the "Worst practice in ICT use in Education". Sometimes the best way to understand something is to look at how it can go wrong.
From my experience, I can only say that all 9 of the points he mentions is true. That being said, I also liked the first comment that pleads for a bit more nuanced way of looking at the situation. Sometimes a project just develops in a certain way, and there is not much one can do about it.

For our ADDIE model, it is clear that:

1. We NEED a model before we do anything e-Learning wise. Although the blog focuses more on hardware type projects, it is also relevant to the design and implementation of e-Learning courses. It does not help we design something that works only on e.g. iPad computers (that nobody in SA has)!
2. The "E" = Evaluation part of ADDIE is the most important one. One must evaluate your design.

Thought to share it with you. Quite interesting stuff. Please read all the comments. The 7th one is from a UWC colleague, Michael Rowe, who is a great guy and deep thinker and practitioner w.r.t. e-Learning.