From the course: Instructional Design Essentials: Models of ID
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Rapid prototyping and iterative instructional design
From the course: Instructional Design Essentials: Models of ID
Rapid prototyping and iterative instructional design
- ADDIE is often criticized for being inefficient and costly because of its sequential waterfall approach. While that approach is implied, it is not necessarily prescribed. As a result, many instructional designers have addressed this perceived shortcoming in ADDIE by taking a cue from software developers. Iterative rapid prototyping. Iterative rapid prototyping is a way to do ADDIE without constraining yourself to a sequential waterfall, and thereby increasing efficiency and lowering cost without sacrificing quality. In fact, you may actually increase quality. The key is to start prototyping in the very early stages of a project. Just when you are beginning the analysis phase. As you are assessing needs and sourcing content, you build a prototype of what you imagine will be the finished product. Now remember, a prototype is, by definition, a first form, an original form, one that simply exhibits essential features of a later form. The first iterations are deliberately rough because…
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