Centralized or Decentralized Training: Which model is better?
“It takes too long.” This is the single most common complaint from stakeholders with regards to centralized learning organizations who create training content for different business functions. The traditional method of pairing a centralized team of instructional designers with distributed Subject Matter Experts (SME) no longer scales effectively to meet the ever-increasing speed of business (with rare exceptions). […]
Is Your Training Request and Development Process Inefficient?
If you really want to streamline the training development and instructional design process, a good place to start is with the initial training request. Training requests typically list information about the expected productivity improvements or performance goal for the training. Additional information usually includes the department, sponsor, audience, preferred method (Online, face to face, blended, […]
What approach do you apply for Instructional Design: Agile Vs. ADDIE
Many corporate training and development departments find it difficult to meet the increasing volume of training requests. There’s been a great debate for the last few years about whether or not the ADDIE model of instructional design is too slow for today’s speed of business. To refresh your memory, ADDIE stands for analysis, design, development, implementation, and […]
Ask the Experts: Agile Learning & Iterative Instructional Design Processes
Although many organizations and business functions have proclaimed Agile methodologies to be a ground-breaking way of anticipating and managing change, a cloud of mystery still hovers around how Agile can and should be applied to learning design. In recent years, a few different Agile instructional design models and theories have been developed. Some L&D teams […]
