The ADDIE versus SAM (Successive Approximation Model) debate has been swirling around for several years now—in an effort to speed up the instructional design process. I’ve heard people say that ADDIE is too slow, while others claim that SAM is too complicated.
If instructional design is taking too long, I can assure you that it’s not ADDIE’s fault, But it’s not SAM’s, either. We turn around training projects in record-breaking time, and I never so much a