Instructional Design and Development Utilizing Technology: A Student Perspective

The sequence Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate (ADDIE) provides a powerful methodology for designing computer-based educational materials. Helping students to understand this design process sequence may be achieved by providing them with direct, guided experience. This article examines such help and guidance and the overall learning process from a student’s personal experience. Keywords—ADDIE, education, instructional design, web design. HE following narrative is a student’s view of the processes involved in learning the essential procedures of designing instruction with an emphasis on the production of instructional media. The student is the first author, currently completing Walden University’s Ph.D. program in Educational Technology. The narrative was validated by the second author, who served as the instructor for the course in question. For purposes of clarity, the narrative is expressed in the first person who in all cases refers to the first author.