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ADDIE Analysis:
Needs Assessment
Learning Objective: The learner will be able to state what is the purpose of ADDIE’s Needs Assessment and what questions should be answered as part of it.
The main purpose of the Needs Assessment is to identify what problem is triggering the desire for learning or training. Identifying such problem is essential to establish the goals and objectives.
The questions below help draw the core elements needed in this ADDIE step.
- What are the problem/s triggering a desire for this learning or training?
- What are the specific knowledge/skills the learner needs to acquire?
- Is this course or training a replacement or addition to an existing one?
- How often will the course or training content change?
- Is it possible to teach these skills online? If not, why not?
- Were the needs identified by the learner or by someone else?
- Why will learners want to take this course or training as opposed to others?
- Who will approve or pay for the instruction and what are his/her expectations?
- How soon do the learners need the skills or knowledge from this course?
- What time and other resource limitations will the learners face?
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If possible interview a few prospective learners or have others perform the research for you. As you analyze the answers to the above questions think like a learner and formulate your own answer the questions.
See how close your answers come to those of the prospective learners and try to understand the reason for disparities between your thinking and theirs.
It is important you continue to probe based on the above questions until you can understand and empathize with the prospective learners and those that commissioned the instruction.
As you go through the above process remember that instruction is always the response to a problem. People learn to meet a need. The need might be to perform a task, react, or think in a certain way given a set of conditions.
One of the main goals of the analysis is for you to understand the problem and design a way to effectively deliver an instructional solution yielding the desired learner behavior.
Next go to ADDIE Analysis: Audience Analysis
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