Agile Development is Your Ticket to Better e-Learning Trainings

Agile development can keep you nimble and innovative in creating your e-Learning, especially during unprecedented times like these. These days, we know almost all teams are completing training programs via e-Learning, and it’s imperative to adopt Agile to provide efficient e-Learning training quickly. Our current workforce circumstances have provided extra obstacles and challenges to take training programs online, and the success of company training & development rests on how nimble your development can be. 

According to a 2020 research report from the HR Research Institute, more than two-thirds of participants agree or strongly agree that career development is a primary organizational learning driver. From the organizational perspective, career development is important for securing a talent pipeline for key job roles and ensuring talent bench strength.

Everyone has to learn and train remotely in these unprecedented times and figure out and adjust to e-Learning. Whether a higher education course, an internal training program from an HR department, or any other training that needs to be delivered, there are many use cases in which agile e-Learning development can help. 

While you may have heard about Agile development design, it’s important to understand how agile can be enacted into your design and development stages to yield better results. Agile was initially integrated into software product development, and since then has spread into almost every aspect of business.

The Agile model follows a unique structure and is the basis of multi-check point development. The Agile development strategy builds functional modules first and delivers them quickly. Post-delivery, the incorporation of product feedback presents a unique opportunity to make product changes, ultimately creating a more market-tested design through a more dedicated iteration process. Agile is broken up into smaller steps that can be completed quicker and have a greater focus, since they are present.

A TechBeacon article¹ explains how Agile software development entered the scene more than 15 years ago as a reaction to traditional approaches to software development projects. Originally promoted as a movement, many people viewed it as a challenger to entrenched practices such as waterfall.

“Driven by a belief among adopters that this new style of development is more customer-centric and enhances team collaboration,” the article added. A lack of collaboration is the most widely cited weakness of today's learning systems, according to the HR Research Institute.² So how are you going to adapt and incorporate agile development? 

Development for eLearning has not been immune to the adoption of Agile as it has followed trends in better product development practices. Elearningindustry.com commented on the incorporation of Agile into eLearning processes, saying, “Of course, as has been much-documented, eLearning is inherently different from software development and this means that we cannot blindly adopt Agile; but it is clear that there is utility with the right adaptations.”³

Within the agile process, the Successive Approximation Model (SAM) can benefit any performance-based or audience-centered learning product. 

Discover SAM and Agile eLearning development in the “Learning Leader” course series. The series includes 5 weekly, self-paced exercises and peer review/feedback, and offers certificates and recertification badges. The world is adopting Agile, and e-Learning has the potential to be revolutionized with the proper incorporations.

Learn more today and make your eLearning development more agile

 

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References:

1. Jeremiah. H., (2020). Survey: Is agile the new norm? TechBeacon. Retrieved from https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/survey-agile-new-norm

2. HR.com HR Research Institute. (2020, March). The State of Learner Experience, Engagement, and Solutions 2020: Gain insights into how to improve the learning culture, technologies and strategies. Retrieved from https://crm.hr.com/en/resources/free_research_white_papers/hrcom-learner-experience-engagement-2020-research_k7y5ad4v.html

3. Anand, T. (2017, November 22). Agile Project Management In ELearning Development. Elearningindustry.com. Retreived from https://elearningindustry.com/agile-project-management-elearning-development
    

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