Instructional Design For Dummies

Chapter 10

Show Time! Implementing Your Instruction Successfully

IN THIS CHAPTER

Accounting for potential challenges to implementation

Trying out the instruction with potential learners

Logistical planning for various instructional delivery modes

All your design work eventually leads you to this point: You stop designing and start putting your instruction into effect! This chapter is about the “I” phase of the ADDIE process: Implementing your instruction. (For more on the ADDIE process, see Chapter 1.) At this point, you did your analyses, completed your design, and developed your instruction. Now it’s time for you to try it out! While it’s true that you already thought long and hard by thinking about the factors related to implementation early in the analysis phase and throughout the design process, now is the time for learners to actually use it. At this point, you need to focus on the final details needed to support your learners and/or instructors for the day they begin the instruction.

In this chapter, you read about a model that you can use when planning the effective implementation of your instruction, taking into account the different factors that can hurt the success of ...