Agile communication throughout the ADDIE model
As we discussed in Chapter 2, The Teaching Competency, ADDIE continues to be the longest tenure and most popular model for the instructional design process. Even if the organization you are working with does not 100% follow the full ADDIE model, you can still use the phases of ADDIE as the basis for how you communicate and collaborate on a given ID project.
The ability to manage your project by being nimble and agile in the way you iterate your learning project is the key to meeting your deliverables’ timelines. While we will look at the ADDIE model in this chapter, we’ll examine it through the lens of an iterative lifecycle, versus a one-and-done linear process.
Figure 5.2 – A review of ADDIE (by Dave Braunschweig – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31359973)
While other instructional design models are, by nature, more agile, such as the...