Remove ADDIE Remove Easygenerator Remove Instructional Design Remove Version
article thumbnail

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

Challenge to Learn

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.

article thumbnail

Agile eLearning development: business goals and road map

Challenge to Learn

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).

Agile 242
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Challenge to Learn

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.

Agile 208
article thumbnail

Agile eLearning development (4): Planning and execution

Challenge to Learn

When we start on a new version of easygenerator we will from a business perspective assign priorities to the user stories. Done means that you could decide to put them in the production version of the product straight after the demo. ADDIE Agile e-Learning development e-Learning eLearning' First estimation.

Agile 205
article thumbnail

Agile eLearning development (2): Culture

Challenge to Learn

In our case the demo is done to some colleagues (product owner, CEO, instructional designer), but very often partners or customers will also attend these demo’s. We decided to leave it like that and bring out the new version with this functionality. So sometimes it will be so agile that you stop earlier than planned.

Agile 221
article thumbnail

On demand: agile e-Learning development #LCBQ

Challenge to Learn

The most used one is the ADDIE model, where development has five phases:Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation. We do our software development at easygenerator through an agile method and I love it! We build the new easygenerator version in 3 months. I wrote a blog about it a short time ago.

Agile 184
article thumbnail

Agile tips that will improve your eLearning development

Challenge to Learn

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. Tools like Easygenerator have special review functions for this purpose. So if you want to have more details: Review on Michael Allen’s book ‘Leaving ADDIE for SAM.

Agile 100