Jay Cross, always in tune with the leading edge in this field, tackles the topic of “Agile instructional design“. The idea of agile processes has been around for over 10 years in software development and is just now starting to flow toward project management and instructional design in the learning and development field. Jay correctly identifies the ADDIE (analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate) approach to instructional design as the predominant in the field. I have always thought that ADDIE was a sequential process for instructional design, but told you little about why you should select one training approach over another. As well, ADDIE seems to leave out an important step that is part of the Agile process – modeling. One of the founders of the Agile programming movement, Scott Ambler, has a book and a website on Agile modeling that is well worth visiting. For other sources, see Jay’s article. (GW)
Agile Instructional Design | Informal Learning Blog | Jay Cross | 16 February 2009
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I have recent experience of adopting and adapting Agile for instructional design and development.
Our team developed process and practice standards and learning solutions to support them.
Agile is a terrific name for the approach because we were able to move limberly, absorb change and produce quickly.
At Nationwide, we plan to continue using Agile instructional design and development on larger projects. Subject matter expertise is critical; it is important to gain their commitment to the approach. (On our project, the subject matter experts were from Agile software development teams.)