Bates (2014) criticizes the inflexibility of the ADDIE model in his blog post with its frontloaded focus on design development without exact guidelines on instructor-student interactions and learning transfer during course delivery to force the instructors to go outside of the model. Bates described that the model allows for a systematic approach to defined learning objectives with a structured content within a cognitively controlled workload for both instructor and student and works best on large and complex projects. It can be used on projects with any size, but in the case of small student numbers and simple and\/or traditional classroom design, it becomes expensive.<\/p>\n
Bates main criticisms, lye in the cascading or so-called waterfall design where the phases depend on the results of the preceding one, assuming that the deliverable of the previous stage is complete and accurate which makes it time and human resource consuming. That worked well in a classroom-oriented environment, however, in the online sphere it isn\u2019t flexible enough to meet more complicated and layered learning requirements. In an ever-changing world, the original goals many times shift by the time the design reaches the last steps. When assumptions made in the analysis phase are incorrect, they lead to the incorrectly targeted design, development and implementation. We may only find this out at the evaluation phase, as opposed to using an iterative or agile model in the development, which I feel are more efficient in a constantly changing environment such as web and software development field as they offer early detection and correction of problems.<\/p>\n
The ADDIE model has been useful and appropriate in a behaviourist approach and learning strategy and I believe the principles of ADDIE can still apply in some circumstances to instructional design, depending on the goal of the instruction. There are many models and theories in instructional design that have been modified and adjusted to the changing advancements in technology. Surprisingly Bates criticized ADDIE without providing a new model or a mix of models for instructional designers to consider, although in his 2015 Teaching in a Digital Age book he describes several additional models.<\/p>\n
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Illustrations are created by the author.<\/em><\/p>\n References<\/p>\n Bates, A. W. \u00a0(2014, September 9).\u00a0Is the ADDIE model appropriate for teaching in a digital age?\u00a0[Blog post]\n Bates, A. W. (2015). Teaching in a digital age. BC Campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bates (2014) criticizes the inflexibility of the ADDIE model in his blog post with its frontloaded focus on design development without exact guidelines on instructor-student interactions and learning transfer during course delivery to force the instructors to go outside of the model. Bates described that the model allows for a systematic approach to defined learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0057\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}