Week8

8.1 Background and Rationale
You have now completed the five steps in ADDIE with the assistance of the ADDIE template. This experience has given you a taste of what instructional design is all about, although there are many more instructional design models, learning theories, and instructional strategies to be explored and in the future, incorporated in your practice of Instructional Design. In the future, you may choose to use a different instructional design model, or to develop your own methodology and tools for instructional design, but for this course we have provided you with the model and template to fill in to create your final instructional design document.

This week will be spent revising/finalizing the instructional design document that you have created using the ADDIE template. Because Instructional Design is an iterative process, you will be expected to review each element of your document and incorporate feedback from your instructor. In addition, you will probably have some insights or ideas that weren’t obvious to you the first time around – that is what ID is all about – improving your product as you learn more about the situation, your learners, the topic, and other factors that might influence your design. **Guiding Questions**
 * 1) Now that you have been through all the steps in ADDIE, how do you envision this process being incorporated into your work?
 * 2) Which tools and methods have the most use and meaning for you? Which will you discard or replace with other tools?
 * 3) If someone now asked you the question "what is instructional design?" how would you respond?

**Outcomes** After this week you will be able to:
 * 1) Describe the key elements of instructional design.
 * 2) Present an instructional design project to peers.