What model do you use to develop e-learning?

What model do you use to develop your e-learning?

If you have developed an e-learning yourself or perhaps want to develop it, you probably recognise this: you have a lot of knowledge and skills that you would love to share with your students. But, you are not an expert when it comes to developing e-learning! So how do you go about this then?

Fortunately, there are a number of models that you can use to structure and facilitate the creation of e-learning.

In this blog, we describe two models: ADDIE and the Bloom's Taxonomy.

Why do we recommend working with the model of your choice? Because you'll make it a lot easier for yourself. You create a helicopter view and a clear overview. You know which material you can place in your training at what time and how it connects logically. By using these models, you create a strong foundation that you can always further expand later.

‍ADDIE modell‍

Here are the five steps of the ADDIE model:

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1. Analysis

Start by analyzing your target group: who is your student? Here, it is very valuable to do target group research prior to developing your e-learning, so that you really get to know your target group.

Then you ask yourself: what problem do I solve for my student? Once you have this clear for yourself, you will complete the training. How does your target group prefer to learn?

Choose teaching materials and activities in a format (video, audio, gifs, text) that suits your target group.

The last step in this important phase is to think about the implementation of your e-learning: budget, platform, marketing, etc.

2. Design

In this phase, you will actually develop the training. You do this at two levels: at the “course level”, so you look at the training in its entirety and determine things such as title, goal, structure and learning objectives.

And at the “unit level” where you determine the same things but also go into more detail about the detailed information per unit or module (information, activities, assessment).

3. Develop

Now it's getting real! It's time to place your content in an online learning environment.

Pluvo is ideal for hosting various forms of content such as video, text, audio and gifs. Of course, we'll help you with all the “technology” involved in this step.

4. Implement

You can start welcoming your first students! In this step, it is essential that you closely monitor how the learning experience is going. Is there interaction in the training?

How fast or slow do the students complete your training? Are you already receiving feedback? How do you stay involved with your students?

5. Evaluate

Keep a clear finger on the pulse of your training. What do you read from the statistics? Also, make sure that your training stays up to date. For example, have there been any interesting developments in your field?

Then don't leave it uncovered in your training. Do you receive the same questions from students over and over again? Then create an FAQ section in your training. Do you notice that a certain subject is really alive? Then pay attention to this. In other words: don't get out of the picture and stay present and active in your training!

‍Bloom's Taxonomy

Educational developers use the Bloom's taxonomy often to create learning outcomes that focus not only on the subject, but also on the depth of learning, and then to create assessments that accurately reflect students' progress.

Bloom's taxonomy includes three learning areas: the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains, and assigns a hierarchy to each of these domains that corresponds to different levels of learning. The different levels of thinking that are defined within each domain of taxonomy are hierarchical. Students can therefore not complete these levels in random order because the next step builds on the previous step.

Broadly speaking, the hierarchy comes down to this:

1. Remember: remember information. Recognise, describe, name.
2. understanding: explain ideas or concepts. Interpreting, summarising, naming, classifying.
3. Apply: use information in a different context. Run, use, apply.
4. analyzing: Divide information into pieces to investigate connections and relationships. Compare, organise, disassemble, interrogate.
5. Evaluate: motivating or justifying a decision or event. Control, hypothesise, critique, experiment, judge.
6. Create: generate new ideas, products, or views. Design, create, plan, produce, invent, build.

Once you have determined and designed the order and content of your e-learning using (one of the) above models, you can then place the content in an online learning environment (such as Pluvo;)). Create a free account here!