Almost all instructional designers (especially the ones who did a course in Instructional Designing / e-Learning) know Addie. I heard about him only recently. But when I met him, I realized that even I knew him before. It’s just that I dint know that I knew him. :-)
Well I really don’t want to talk here much about who Addie is and what he does. I guess a lot of people have already done that. Just Google ‘ADDIE’ and you will know what I mean. What interests me is the fact that I have been using his theory for a long time but I never knew that it came from him. Actually I never knew that it was a theory even. ;-)
Here is how my team uses Addie's theory at work:
A for Analysis
D for Design
D for Development
I for Implementation
E for Evaluation