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Book review: Leaving ADDIE for SAM: will agile eLearning development become mainstream?

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I believe that an agile approach will bring a lot of benefits to e-Learning development. I’m interested in agile development because we develop the easygenerator software in an agile way. I’m interested in agile development because we develop the easygenerator software in an agile way.

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Agile eLearning development: business goals and road map

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This is a first post in a series of post on Agile eLearning development. This series is sparked by the book ‘Leaving ADDIE for SAM’ by Michael Allen and Richard Sites. I do believe that agile software development can offer us even more very practical ‘best practices’ that we can apply to eLearning. The road map.

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Agile eLearning development (3): Best practices, Demo’s, user stories and backlog

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In the previous post on agile eLearning development I wrote about culture. Agile development offers a range of best practices that are relatively easy to implement. Agile development works in short sprints (one or 2 weeks). Agile development works in short sprints (one or 2 weeks). When using Addie you can also do this.

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Agile eLearning development (4): Planning and execution

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When using an agile approach there is a different way of making estimations, you don’t calculate hours but use story-points. When we start on a new version of easygenerator we will from a business perspective assign priorities to the user stories. Agile eLearning development: business goals and road map. First estimation.

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Agile eLearning development (2): Culture

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I planned to write this second post on agile eLearning development about the backlog and estimations. The difference between a classic waterfall approach and an agile one is way more than applying a different set of tools and techniques, it is a different state of mind. But there is more to agile.

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Press Release: Kasper Spiro Predicts the End of the Corporate Learning Management System

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Amsterdam, February 3, 2014 – Easygenerator CEO and eLearning veteran Kasper Spiro shares his vision of the future of eLearning and learning. As learning becomes more pull by the learner, than push by the learning department, the type of content, the planning, the control and even the development method (from ADDIE to agile) will change.

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On demand: agile e-Learning development #LCBQ

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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!

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