Development:

The third stage in the ADDIE process is Development. In this stage, the designer will use the prototype developed (and potentially revised while considering input from stakeholders) to begin to bring the project to life.

In my case, after consulting with my training team at work, and wrestling a bit with my initial project, I realized that there were more immediate training problems that I could address with my capstone project than the one I proposed during class. I did a complete revision of steps 1 and 2, and landed on a new training problem: The trainings we currently do on body systems are not interactive, and use up far too much classroom time, which could be better used for discussion and working through real life examples as a group. With this new problem identified, I developed a new design plan for attacking it. Below I’ve included a Project Proposal and Work Plan to accomplish step #3 of the ADDIE process.

This sample plan lays out goals, a series of steps to be accomplished toward completing that goal, as well as a timeline for completing the goal. In true ADDIE fashion, after creating the Work Plan below, I did have to extend the work plan after receiving some feedback from my training team at my workplace. An additional lesson was added to the overall plan, which extended the timeline to completion. However, as we learned throughout the class, the steps of the ADDIE process are meant to be re-visited in order to apply ongoing feedback to projects in process.

Project Proposal and Work Plan

Proposed Project: Musculoskeletal Impairments

Intended Audience: SSA Disability Adjudicators-in-Training

Description: An interactive module on evaluating musculoskeletal impairments for disability claims composed of five lessons:

1. Medical background
2. Signs, Symptoms and Lab Findings in Medical Records
3. The requirements of the Musculoskeletal Listings
4. Practical Application –evaluating and rating Musculoskeletal Impairments
5. Assessment

Each of the first 3 lessons will include knowledge checks that are checkpoints for moving to the next element of the lesson

Lesson 4 will include opportunities to take a collection of information and apply what has been learned in lessons #1-3 to evaluate whether the impairment meets listing, or if not,  what functional limitations it might cause.

The entire unit will conclude with an assessment to gauge what the user has learned.

Context:

Currently as a training staff at DDS, we spend 2-3 hours per body system “teaching” about the body system. This primarily consists of presenting information from a PowerPoint that trainees could easily read themselves. The lectures are long, are not interactive, and take up large amounts of class time that could better be used for modeling and/or interactive activities in which they apply knowledge to practicing adjudicative tasks.

This proposed project would prepare a self-directed, asynchronous, interactive learning module for the first of the 14 body systems.

The unit will be created using Articulate Rise, and will be hosted on our DDS Blackboard Site.

Much of the material for this lesson already exists, but is contained in disparate documents, including PowerPoint presentations, handouts, visual guides, and other documents used for training. This project will sort and compile the material into a single learning module that is accessible by learners in one place.

Learning Objectives:

Recognize and name the elements of the body that are evaluated under the musculoskeletal system

Identify common signs, symptoms, and lab findings associated with musculoskeletal impairments

Understand the requirements of the Musculoskeletal Listings

Apply program knowledge to body system knowledge in order to evaluate the severity of musculoskeletal impairments

Project Milestones:

April 18 – Submit project plan and timeline

April 25—Build Lessons 1 and 2 on Rise

May 2—Build Lesson 3, schedule feedback for progress thus far

May 9 –Build Lesson 4

May 16—Build Assessment

May 23 –Pilot course on Blackboard, get feedback

May 30—Apply feedback, revisions

June 5 , 4:00 pm – Project Presentation