Instructional Design Models with Dr. Tonia Dousay #20

Instructional Design (ID) models are visual representations of the ID process grounded in theoretical frameworks. One ID model that gave birth to the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) process is the Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development or IPISD model. Although there are many ID models and only a few seem to be in use in workplace learning today, they are not all equal. In this episode, Dr. Tonia Dousay has co-authored published several editions for the Survey of Instructional Design Models which is a great resource to learn about ID models. She and I had a thoughtful discussion about the evolution of ID models from behavioral to systemic approaches to training. We looked at which models can fit better for a particular context and many other interesting facts about them.

Origins of Instructional Design

Many academics and blogs out there have stated the origins of ID stemming from World War II but that's not entirely accurate. The reality is that there are two streams of the practice: Academic sources and early practitioners from the efforts of the Emergency Fleet Corporation in 1917. You can learn about this in the first episode of the StyleLearn Origins podcast.

ADDIE or IP|SD?

Many workplace learning professionals have a very superficial knowledge of the model that introduced the ADDIE process. Many also conflate the ADDIE acronym with an ID model and this has already been debunked by yours truly. Dr. Dousay and I recognize the IPISD as a quintessential model that changed how ID was practiced. It's my observation that popular models like Dick and Carey's or subsequent approaches are spinoff versions of the IPISD. It was the late Dr. Robert Branson who led the 5-year project that became the IPISD with background guidance from Robert Gagne. Need we say more?

Watch and Listen to this Episode

Listen to learn more about other ID models and models that are not so ID but yet remain popular in the LnD industry.

Sources

Survey of Instructional Design Models 5th Ed

https://aect.org/survey_of_instructional_design.php

ADDIE the Model That Never Was

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/addie-id-model-never-alexander-salas/

Tosti and Ball's 1969 Behavioral Approach to ID and Media Selection

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30217477