Design and Evaluation of a Higher Education Distance Eap Course by Using the Addie Model

Due to inadequate support, most university students have difficulty with writing academic texts, such as research articles and dissertations. Therefore, the aim of this research is to design a web-based academic writing course for university students by using the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation) model, which is supported by individual instructional and socio-cultural theories on the design of online instruction. The first group of participants in the study included undergraduate and graduate students studying in a variety of departments at a state university in Turkey. The second group of participants included university instructors. To diagnose the needs of the students, semi-structured questions were asked in interview sessions. Additionally, a questionnaire was used. After diagnosis of the students’ academic writing needs, course content and materials were designed for topics such as formality, paraphrasing, and the IMRaD (Introduction, Method Results and Discussion) model. The data collected with the questionnaire were analysed through item analysis. The frequencies and percentages of responses to each item in the questionnaire were calculated. Content analysis was used to analyse the transcribed interview data. The findings elucidate how the current academic online courses can be implemented more efficiently.