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ADDIE Design:
Identify Goals


Learning Objective: The learner will be able to state why educational goals should be identified and how to identify them.


Goals assist in the creation of objectives and tell instructors what learners need to know, understand, or apply.


In addition to whats stated above, well stated goals assist us in:
  • Focusing efforts and minimizing deviations during course design and delivery
  • Provide learner�s with a guideline against which to measure performance
  • Build accurate expectations
  • Help build and efficient and effective course



In order to formulate your course or training goals, take a look at the answers obtained during to the questions in the Analysis phase. See what the learners and those that commission the course/training stated to be the purpose for the instruction as well as the specific skills described. With that information, formulate achievable goals for the course or training.

As you try to formulate your goals keep in mind that more than one course/training might be needed to accomplish the outcomes outlined by the learners or those that commissioned the course or training. People often overestimate what can be efficiently assimilated in an instructional session, course, or training. Make sure you assess this realistically.

If you feel that the learners or those that commissioned the course overestimated what is possible, identify those things that you feel cannot be accomplished and provide alternatives, how to compensate for them, or how to accomplish them by other means.

Based on the above formulate your goals for the course or training.



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