The ADDIE analysis phase serves a major role in the quality assurance process. It defines the project’s needs and ways to measure its success. If you skip ADDIE’s analysis phase, you can easily introduce mistaken assumptions into the project such as wrong focus that could lead the course to be boring and frustrating for the learners and to top it all you could end up with incomplete, redundant, or inaccurate content.

If you rush to development, you may not catch those errors until you launch the course. At that point, it can be very costly to fix or redesign the course. In essence, the training needs analysis is time well-spent.

Unsurprisingly, the better you study the requirements prior to the course creation, the more effective the resulting course will be. Analysis helps you gain a clear understanding of the primary target audience, learning goals, physical and organisational constraints, technical requirements and structural characteristics of the course, and criteria used for assessment.

Let us dive a little deeper to see what this is all about, why is it important, what are the factors contributing to it, and, what can we, as facilitators, do to ensure that we build the right learning design.

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