THE ADDIE STRATEGY

ANALYSE

To create an interactive resource for your subject first you must analyse what you need. This is where you make choices and decisions about the kinds of experiences learners will be offered in a course/subject. The use of an analysis matrix will help you to determine what is needed to constructively align your teaching resources to the subject objectives taking into consideration the learning situation, the subject context, student and academic characteristics. Resources in the form of word documents have been linked here. Click on Course Analysis Tool for an instrument to help you analyse the assessments in all the subjects in a course. Click on Subject Assessment Tool for an instrument that helps you analyse how the objectives are being aligned with the assessment tasks. Click on Subject Resource Analysis Tool for an instrument to help you analyse how the subject objectives are met by the subject resources. Click here for a sample matrix. When revising a subject, the use of a revision checklist can help you decide what further strtegies you might use. This revision checklist may help you decide.

The use of an activity matrix will help you determine how you are teaching, or can teach concepts in an interactive way. Click on Activity Analysis Tool for a tool that will help you analyse what activities you have in the subject already or might be able to add. Go to the Examples page to get ideas for dfferent types of resources.

The FULT Learning and Teaching Website can help you with this preparation.

DESIGN

In this stage, you will need to develop the concept of your resource. A way to help you clarify and document your subject is to fill in a learning design proforma . This will help you analyse what the subject contains, what strategies you use to teach with, the rationale for using them and, eventually, your thoughts and reflections on the resource. This document can be used as an ongoing record of your subject development and evidence of how your subject has progressed. Rationales for teaching strategies can be determined by researching and reading about different pedagogies. Click on the pedagogy link to read more.

From your learning design worksheet you can then link learning objectives for each task, identify the learning steps required to perform the task, sequence the learning tasks (from easy to more difficult), and develop evaluation matrices or rubrics for the task. A flowchart or storyboard will help you visualise the steps required and identify any support materials required. A sample storyboard can be found here.

DEVELOP

Develop a draft document or prototype and test it. Produce support materials for the resource if they're required. Evaluate the draft and refine the material. Retest and revise then produce the final resource. Click here to go to the development page.

An Online Style Guide has been developed to help you when developing material for online.

IMPLEMENT

Try out your resource and get feedback from recipients. Ensure the recipients get any support needed.

EVALUATE

Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate. A good resource is never completely finished. There is always room for improvement. Be prepared to revise and improve material from session to session if needed. Design a good product in the beginning for sustainability but leave room for flexibility.

Check the Evaluation page for rubrics for different resource types.