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

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I’m interested in agile development because we develop the easygenerator software in an agile way. Michael and Richard present us an agile alternative for ADDIE: SAM (Successive Approximation Model). It is followed by an analysis of ADDIE, looking at its original form and some new manifestations.

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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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5 eLearning Trends Leading to the End of the Learning Management System

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I also believe that we have to leave ADDIE (or ADDIE like methods) and move into agile eLearning development. I have been writing about this for a couple of years now, but this trend is becoming mainstream, thanks to the book “Leaving ADDIE for SAM” by Michael Allen. Conclusion. e-Learning'

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Easygenerator Wins Excellence in e-learning Award

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Easygenerator has just won the golden “Excellence in e-Learning” award at the 2018 CLO Learning in Practice Awards, presented by Chief Learning Officer magazine. Winning this award is an incredible honor for Easygenerator and a major milestone for our “Employee-generated Learning” approach. It’s also a great moment for some reflection.

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Agile eLearning development: business goals and road map

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This series is sparked by the book ‘Leaving ADDIE for SAM’ by Michael Allen and Richard Sites. The idea is to go over the process of agile software development at easygenerator and translate that into eLearning development. We release a new version of easygenerator every 2 or 3 months (we are working on a release every month).

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

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At easygenerator we now work in one week sprints. When using Addie you can also do this. If you are not ready to do so, at least consider showing your intermediate results to the client (by using for example the preview function that is available in tools like easygenerator). Every Tuesday at 10 the team will show their results.

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My tips for the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas

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Session 303 : Michael Allen: A New Agile Model: Leaving ADDIE Behind. Should be interesting, a presentation on how all the 21th century changes effects learning design and methodologies like ADDIE and Agile. And easygenerator is present at the expo with a booth (#421). I couldn’t agree more.

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