INSTRUCTOR LED SOLUTIONS: your outsourced solution to corporate, departmental gaps that link and enhance professional skills.  I use the ADDIE Model to design Instructor Led Solutions. ADDIE stands for Analysis > Design > Development > Implementation > Evaluation.

Analysis Phase

The analysis phase helps to accomplish several things. This phase clarifies the instructional goals and objectives, establishes the learning environment, and identifies learner's existing knowledge and skills. 

Key questions to answer:

* Who is the audience?
* What is the desired behavioral outcome?
* What types of learning constraints exist?
* What are the delivery options?
* What are the online pedagogical modules of learning?
* What is the timeline for project completion?

Design Phase

The design phase deals with learning objectives, assessment instruments, exercises, content, subject matter analysis, lesson planning and media selection. The design phase is systematic and specific. Systematic means a logical, orderly method of identifying, developing, and evaluating a set of planned strategies targeted for attaining the project's goals. Specific means each element of the instructional design plan needs to be executed with attention to details.

Critical steps of the design phase:

* Document the project's instructional, visual and technical design strategy.
* Apply instructional strategies according to the intended behavioral outcomes by domain (cognitive, affective, psychomotor).
* Create storyboards.
* Design the user interface and user experience.
* Create the prototype.
* Apply the visual design (graphic design).

Development Phase

The development phase is where the developers create and assemble the content assets as in the design phase. Programmers work to develop and/or integrate technologies. Testers perform debugging procedures. The project is reviewed and revised according to any feedback given.

Implementation Phase

During the implementation phase, I develop a procedure for training the facilitators and the learners. The facilitators' training should cover the course curriculum, learning outcomes, method of delivery, and testing procedures. The preparation process includes registering the students and training them on new tools (software or hardware).

This phase is also where the project manager ensures that the books, hands on equipment, tools, CD-ROMs and software are in place, and that the learning application or Website is functional.

Evaluation Phase

The evaluation phase consists of two parts: formative and summative. Formative evaluation is present in each stage of the ADDIE process. Summative evaluation consists of tests designed for domain specific criterion-related referenced items and providing opportunities for feedback from the users.