Dr. Catherine Lombardozzi is a career workplace learning professional
with more than twenty-five years’ experience in learning management and
instructional design. In her work, Catherine promotes performance-based design,
engaging techniques, scholarly practice, and the use of new technology to
support learning. Catherine manages the Best Practices team for the corporate
university at Vanguard, and she serves as an adjunct faculty member in
instructional design and adult learning for Pennsylvania State University
(Great Valley campus), George Washington University, and Chestnut Hill College.
She has a doctoral degree in Human Resources Development from George Washington
University, and has been published in the HRD Review and the Journal of
Workplace Learning.
As tools and modalities for learning have advanced in the last five to ten years, instructional design (ID) has generally remained committed to the ADDIE model that first appeared forty years ago. While this systematic approach to design is still conceptually valid, a process that discourages designers from doing the required analysis weighs down its implementation. Let's update ADDIE!
Articles by Catherine Lombardozzi , Dr.
Learning Environment Design
(10/20/08)As tools and modalities for learning have advanced in the last five to ten years, instructional design (ID) has generally remained committed to the ADDIE model that first appeared forty years ago. While this systematic approach to design is still conceptually valid, a process that discourages designers from doing the required analysis weighs down its implementation. Let's update ADDIE!

