


What are the benefits of doing development this way?
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In an eLearning development context, some participants would know how to write code or to use authoring software, some would be graphic designers, some managers, some instructional designers, some software engineers, and so on. Participants can come from a variety of backgrounds in fact, it’s better if they do. Participant incentives generally include cash prizes or merchandise: hardware and software. Participants may work as individuals or in teams, and at the end of the hackathon it is usual for them to present their results as a “pitch” to a panel of judges. Hackathons usually have a specific focus and can last from a few hours to several days, with participants working in the same physical location during that time. Hackathons aren’t new according to Wikipedia, the developers of OpenBSD and the marketing team at Sun coined the term to describe two events in 1999. But what about hosting a hackathon as a design and development approach for eLearning? A hackathon, you say? What’s that?Ī hackathon is an event in which programmers, designers, and others collaborate on a development project, frequently involving software development but also for instructional applications, and even (with less technical input) for civic and social purposes. These might include: individual contributors working alone or as a member of a project management task force teams organized around specific sub-tasks brainstorming crowd-sourcing.

You have probably done eLearning development in any of several different ways.
