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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. I do believe that agile software development can offer us even more very practical ‘best practices’ that we can apply to eLearning. Michael told me that he is working on a new book on agile project management, that will also address this. The road map.

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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 (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). But there is hope. A demo takes 1 hour.

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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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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.

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Agile tips that will improve your eLearning development

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I love agile development. We use it at Easygenerator to develop our software. It allows us to deliver a new version each week, be in sink with our road map and with our customers. You can apply the lessons learned from agile software development to eLearning development as well. Agile is made for that.

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Webinar: Didactics, Management theory, Agile and new learning metaphors equals Outcome learning

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I have continued to work on this and now I have a new version. In the earlier version I combined didactic principles with a management theory. I order to make it more complete I now added principles from Agile (Scrum) software development and my ideas about a new learning metaphor. Agile e-Learning development.

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