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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. I believe if you translate this to e-Learning development, it will change not only the way we create e-Learning courses, but also the courses itself. And my first post on agile development after I joined easygenerator.

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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). But there is hope. User stories.

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Agile eLearning development (4): Planning and execution

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When we start on a new version of easygenerator we will from a business perspective assign priorities to the user stories. Very large developments (epic) stories are divided into smaller stories that fit in one sprint. Agile eLearning development: business goals and road map. Agile eLearning development (2): Culture.

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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. Sometimes seeing the solution brings on new ideas (and will lead to different or adjusted user stories) and sometimes we decide that this solution is good enough (although there are more developments planned).

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

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This means that we have to review the way we develop eLearning materials. I also believe that we have to leave ADDIE (or ADDIE like methods) and move into agile eLearning development. For more info please contact: Kasper Spiro (CEO easygenerator), k.spiro@easygenerator.com. Conclusion. e-Learning'

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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. You can apply the lessons learned from agile software development to eLearning development as well. This post contains some simple tips that you can apply to eLearning development.

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