Agile for Instructional Designers - review of the book by Megan Torrance
Agile for Instructional Designers - review of the book by Megan Torrance

Summary/Abstract: Megan Torrance is a practitioner who leads the e-learning design and development firm. In her book Agile for Instructional Designers. Iterative Project Management to Achieve Results, she presents how to apply the agile methodology for designing an e-learning experience. She argues that the ADDIE model still commonly used in instructional design does not suit the needs of contemporary learners, and therefore it should be replaced by a more flexible approach. Flexibility means, in this context, openness to change, which can be introduced even while the training or the course is being delivered. The author of the book claims that the agile approach, well known from software development practices, can be effectively used to support the traditional approach to designing the learning experience. Hence, she introduces first her own, concise definition of agile, and then describes the methodology of using the agile approach to instructional design which she calls LLAMA from the words Lot Like Agile Management Approach.

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