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IN INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY (IT) and instructional design (ID), one of the questions most frequently raised is, "What is the original source for the ADDIE Model?" Students, fellow professors, and practicing professionals are often interested in finding an authoritative source to cite in papers and to provide to clients. Practitioners tend to be curious about the pedigree of the term: Is it from academia? Business? Military?I was curious, too, but not motivated to go beyond a cursory search until I was invited by the editor of a forthcoming encyclopedia (Kovalchick & Dawson, in press) to write an entry for the ADDIE Model. The question became personal.The most obvious place to start such a search is in the existing dictionaries and encyclopedias of instructional technology, education, and training. ADDIE does not appear in any of them. Next, I went to the large (Saettler, 1990 ) and small (Reiser, 2001 ;Shrock, 1995 ) histories of instructional technology and ID. Again, not a single mention.

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