'This is a first post in a series of post on Agile eLearning development. do believe that agile software development can offer us even more very practical ‘best practices’ that we can apply to eLearning. The idea is to go over the process of agile software development at easygenerator and translate that into eLearning development. Before I can do that I have to introduce the roles in this process and map them to ‘e-Learning development roles’. eLearning role. What will we develop in the next 12 months. Development team. MORE >>

To change a purely instructor-led-program for leadership development that runs over eight months and involves these key individuals is a large and complex activity. The best way to mitigate this risk is take the tacit knowledge held by these few individuals, document it, and disseminate it in the best way possible across chosen groups of individuals. Tags: Blended Learning Social Learning eLearning eLearning Development Blending Learning Social Technology A lot of companies today face a resource situation that’s not unique in this age. Web 2.0 MORE >>

Over the years, you have probably noticed that the typically linear eLearning development process has undergone some changes. One change that I’ve noticed are that customers are realizing that we aren’t just creating courseware or writing content and interactions, we are also developing software. This has led to an expectation that the eLearning industry adopt some development models and methodologies from the software industry. The design of ‘good’ software applications is a very different ballgame from developing courseware. MORE >>

'Our eLearning Challenges blog series explores the common situations our clients face when deploying learning solutions. Most of our clients are global companies who deliver eLearning to learners around the globe. If you need to deliver learning solutions across the globe, have your eLearning provider do the following: Avoid contractions. Create character profiles early in the development process that include specific names, titles, geographic locations, gender, and age details. The image below is from a Character Profile Document we used with a global customer. MORE >>

An eLearning player is a building block for more conventional [one with back and next for navigation buttons] eLearning courses. What’s an eLearning player? This post is based on our experience with development of Flash based eLearning players over the years. The considerations mentioned here would, however be applicable to any other (development technologies) eLearning player too. Here are some of the key considerations for developing an eLearning Player –. based eLearning player are –. swf, *.flv, flv, *.js, js, *.html, MORE >>