The difference between an Instructional Designer and a content developer is in the capacity to analyze the need for training. Many of the problems encountered in the workplace are often not the result of lack of training or solved with training efforts. Luckily, we have a long trajectory of good practices beginning with Job Breakdown Lists from 1919 and the Training Within Industry (TWI) movement in the 1940s. Educational Psychologists like Robert Gagne also addressed the issue of job task analysis and even Thomas F. Gilbert, Robert Mager, and Robert Branson include variations of analysis approaches leading to the birth of ADDIE and Human Performance Technology or HPT. In this episode of StyleLearn Origins, we look at needs analyses involving the need for training, job/tasks, and target audience analysis.
Annette & Duncan's Task Analysis and Training Design
ADDIE, The Model That Never Was on LinkedIn
C.R. Allen, The Instructor, The Man and The Job
Thomas F. Gilbert, Human Competence
Training Within Industry Report 1940-1945