Just two weeks ago I posted my plan for the academic calendar this spring. Most of the areas have no real need for an update other than various levels of progress on them, but one has had to completely change.
During the fall I refinanced my house, and unfortunately found out how stunningly incompetent nearly everyone who works for Rocket Mortgage is at their jobs. My frustration level was so high that I forgot I had chosen to have the escrow check sent to me instead of rolling into the new mortgage.
I’ve only owned the house for 2 years so there wasn’t much in it. With that said, the amount was enough to cover paying off my Citi card, my new denture, and replace my personal PC (it was 4 years old, the battery was about to die, and the case broke last year). That means I had to figure out brand new semester goals while keeping my yearly goal in place.
While I was doing that, I saw an opportunity to follow a fairly basic design scenario where deciding which framework to use is part of the design process. In academia, the standard design model is ADDIE. If you’re rebuilding a course or program completely, or designing something new from scratch, you’re probably going to use ADDIE at least as a loose guide. On the other hand, if you’re doing a partial redesign, or assessing what you built and updating according to received feedback, you’ll use a more agile method like SAM.
That leads to a few obvious questions: What is ADDIE? What is SAM? How do you determine which one to use now?
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