Today’s learners are often overwhelmed with too much information and get bogged down by long online courses or in-person workshops that last for days. Microlearning provides an exciting alternative for designers to keep learners engaged and interested in eLearning content.
Thanks to our ever-shortening attention spans, things just keep getting smaller, shorter and broken into pieces. Without question, we are a people on the go facing a never-ending barrage of information.
Learning, too, has been impacted by the mincing of content into smaller and smaller pieces. Now, microlearning is taking eLearning even further.
Microlearning has its own pros and cons. The pros outweigh the cons significantly. It encourages short-term learning and helps students to remember things.
We, at Learnnovators, have been fascinated about micro learning or bite-sized learning. We have been doodling about the possibilities this learning technique offers while developing cost effective and powerful mobile performance support solutions.
In this article I’ll present a framework that could help educators to make a shift from designing long, information based online courses to micro-learning, which is a result of content curation techniques and chunking information design strategy.