Within the context of this module, you will have discovered by now that you are required to develop an e-learning or blended learning intervention within your teaching and learning context. While there is still much to be discovered and understood around the concepts of instructional design, one of the more commonly used methods of design is the ADDIE process.
Each week, for the next three weeks, you are expected to consider one of these concepts by reflecting on your personal blog. As this first week of the module comes to a close, we, as facilitators, expect to see you posting your thoughts and reflections on your personal blog regarding the analysis of your context.
If you scroll down on the course blog, you will see that over the years we have spent time posting on here about what exactly each phase of the ADDIE process is. So for the purpose of not repeating myself this year, please have a look at this post from 2015 regarding the ANALYSIS phase of the process.
You will recall that I asked for everyone of the participants in this module to complete a short survey at the beginning of the module. I used Google Forms to create this survey. If you are interested in learning how to use this very useful tool, please work through the tutorials provided by Google Forms for this purpose. Forms can be used for surveys and provides you with a quick and easy way of identifying needs or answering questions from a large or small group of people in a relatively short time period. Recently, Google Forms included a quiz option which responds to the needs of educators looking for ways of using this free tool for assessment purposes.
We used the Form tool to identify how you as students in our module are currently using technology in your teaching, what your conceptions are about the use or necessity of technology in teaching as well as to identify some demographic and support information. To date, only half of you have responded, making it difficult to draw any conclusions, I will however share what we have in the results here. [I did this by saving a PDF copy of the responses on the form to my Google Drive and have created a hyperlink to that file here]
As the module continues, I will build on this ANALYSIS of my student group to demonstrate how the ADDIE process can be used in practice to develop a new or improved course.
Please remember that ADDIE is a cyclical and repetitive process, as with any other design-based intervention. You are working on your first iteration of this process and for this module, will only be able to complete the first 3 phases and theoretically plan the final 2. Do not feel overwhelmed. We are here to help and will be commenting on each persons' blog as well as this one going forward.
Good luck!
Thank you for your posts Lianne, it is most helpful. Does this mean that in the Analysis phase, you must already be interviewing/ survey the relevant audience to get their input?
ReplyDeleteIf you are engaging on an in-depth design and planning exercise using ADDIE, the Analysis phase could include quite extensive analysis of student needs and perceptions, staff needs and perceptions and the curriculum itself. For the purpose of this module, time is a very limiting factor but this is not to say you can't do a cursory analysis amongst students or staff. In the past, many students doing this elective would take one small group of students and survey them around the perceived problem or needs within the module where you would like to implement your intervention. We have also had others who have sent out short surveys / needs analysis questionnaires to staff members as well. In the assignment, you would then couple this with an analysis of the module to identify the gaps. Refer to your curriculum analysis module for assistance in that regard, I find that this is usually helpful for those doing this elective.
DeleteOk, thank you for clarifying! Yes I understand. As every stage is actually a building block, if you don't do a proper analysis, your design won't be addressing the real problem or in fact the real need. But yes, I was concerned about time restraints in which to do a full scale needs analysis. Thank you for the ideas.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome.
DeletePerhaps your classmates have ideas on how you could do a first round, cursory analysis? The aim is for you to have a relevant and applicable prototype at the end of the module that can be used practically in 2017 within your teaching practice and not just a theoretical exercise.