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Agile instructional design

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Old-style training enraged many managers because it was separate from work. Why isn’t Sally at work today? It needn’t be this way, particularly since knowledge work and learning are nearly indistinguishable. Most corporate learning today can take place simultaneously with work. Agile Software Development.

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Deeper eLearning Design: Part 6 – Putting It All Together

Learnnovators

Fast forward a few decades (shhh), and the agile manifesto arises for software development, focusing on the same elements. You can (and should) get more agile and actually develop iterative versions of your final result. Also implied is a better process for working with SMEs to get objectives. Having end user stakeholders (e.g.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Agile Instructional Design. These qualities are at the heart of the discipline of agile programming. Hence, I am exploring how well the principles of agile programming might be incorporated into a new framework for instructional design. We are abandoning classrooms.&#. The Future of the Training Department (with Harold Jarche).

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Working Smarter eFieldbook $12

Jay Cross

Working smarter is the key to sustainability and continuous improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. The accelerating rate of change in business forces everyone in every organization to make a choice: learn while you work or become obsolete. Working Smarter 23.