{"id":60000,"date":"2017-07-11T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=60000"},"modified":"2017-07-11T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:56:45","slug":"reflections-on-what-is-microlearning-and-what-are-the-most-important-microlearning-features-ayesha-habeeb-omer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/07\/11\/reflections-on-what-is-microlearning-and-what-are-the-most-important-microlearning-features-ayesha-habeeb-omer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on “What is microlearning and what are the most important microlearning features?” [Ayesha Habeeb Omer]"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is microlearning and what are the most important microlearning features?<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from elearningfeeds.com by Ayesha Habeeb Omer
\nThere is a huge shift in the profile of employees in organizations today. They have less time on hand, huge deliverables and responsibilities, and need to keep pace with changing times and business needs. Formal, annual training programs are just not enough to keep pace with the need for constant learning<\/em><\/p>\n

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For the super busy employees of today, learning must be short, concise, and available at the time of need. Ideally, this learning should be made accessible from anywhere and on any device that employees prefer. These changing demands of learners have given rise to a new trend of learning through small nuggets of online courses: Microlearning<\/a>.
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\nMicrolearning refers to the learning strategy that delivers learning content to learners in short, bite-sized, and easily digestible learning nuggets. A microlearning module is focused on meeting one specific learning outcome, by breaking down a large topic into numerous bite-sized modules and allowing the learner to take them in the order of their choice.<\/p>\n

Although the concept of learning in smaller bites has been in existence for a long time, many of us were oblivious to its influence as a potent tool for employee training. Fortunately, it has now gained immense popularity in the fields of corporate training and education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nIt is imperative that all employees have the tools to build their own learning ecosystems.\u00a0 Along these lines, I’m a firm believer in the power of tapping into streams of content<\/em>, such as this article on microlearning alludes to. It would be sharp to have a system whereby you could subscribe to a stream of content on a particular topic, and then take periodic assessments on that topic. When you have passed the assessment(s), the system would prompt you as to whether you wanted to continue to receive this particular stream of content, or whether you wanted to subscribe to the next (or other) topic\/stream of content. This is one of my ideas for a next generation learning platform.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Addendum on 7\/11\/17:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n