5.+Needs

=**Needs Assessment**=

During Week 4, read chapter 5 on needs assessment.

After reading the chapter, viewing this video AND completing the needs assessment tutorials, discuss your own thoughts on why a needs assessment is important to the success of any project. Then discuss the key elements for conducting a needs assessment that are included in all perspectives. Discuss how you use needs assessment in your own work and how it compares with the perspectives provided in the chapter and the tutorials. Make your page comprehensive so that you can return to it and review the important aspects of needs assessment. Use images, videos, diagrams or concept maps to explain your ideas.

View this Video from Dr. Lloyd Rieber, University of Georgia, on needs assessment. He definitely discusses needs assessment much more eloquently than I could do.

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 * Then prepare this page in your portfolio discussing your own thoughts on why a needs assessment is important to the success of any project. Then discuss the key elements for conducting a needs assessment that are included in all perspectives. Incorporate into this page, aspects of why and how you can better use needs assessment in your own field. As always use images, graphics, videos to provide your perspective.**

Information on Instructional Design models for EDET 722 based on information from: Brown, A. & Green, T. D. (2006). The essentials of instructional design: Connecting fundamental principles with process and practice. Upper Saddle River: NJ: Pearson