Though a variety of models guide our instructional design work, I’d argue that ADDIE functions as the basic backbone of the process. Just about every model, trend, and best practice in the field supports one of the phases of ADDIE. So with this in mind, it seems appropriate to take a look at the articles posted to this blog over the past year and organize them according to how they jive with ADDIE. Formula for Storytelling in eLearning Rapid Development the Agile Way. Instructional Design ADDIE eLearning eLearning Project Management BlogBy Shelley A. Gable. MORE >>

t an organizational level, agility is the ability to grow, change, or innovate at or above the speed of one’s own market. Anything less cannot be considered agility.    - Timothy R. We have all heard of corporate agility. We hear the term “agile” all the time related to today’s corporate environment: agile processes, agile practices, agile leadership.  In our rapidly changing world, agility is one of the most important skills an organization can have if it is to stay competitive. But what does it mean to have Learning Agility? MORE >>

I have been reading about agile development lately. One of the key components of agile development is team structuring. Agile methodology suggests a more project structure. Tags: Instructional Design agile Development Rapid development project management Content Development ADDIE eLearning Typically in large organizations, content development teams are organized either as functional teams or as project teams with larger organizations typically having functional structures in place. Teams work dedicatedly for the project, preferably located close to each other. MORE >>

The most used one is the ADDIE model, where development has five phases:Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation. We did e-Learning development through waterfall models for years, but now we have the agile approach. We do our software development at easygenerator through an agile method and I love it! Sumeet Moghe wrote a post in his blog ‘ The Learning Generalist ‘ on agile content development. They describe why they turned to an agile approach, how it works, lessons learned, tools to use and why it works for them. MORE >>

For a long, long time the ADDIE model has been held up as the “holy grail&# of the process to design instruction. An alternative, presented in only 7 minutes in the video below is to use the agile software development method known as Scrum. Check out the video and see if this compressed method would work for your design needs. Image from Reaktor. Design MORE >>