MICRO- Learning
Short-Bite-Size
Efficient and Effective way possible to train/teach people that doesn’t resemble traditional teaching approach, but is accessible and varied.
No just a dumping of original materials, or taking original and chopping it up and putting on-line.
Micro-Learning is described as “Granular”. Each lesson is a single unit, but serves as part of a holistic learning objective, allowing you to watch any lesson in any order.
Micro-Learning is:-
- Flexible
- Learner Driven
(You can skip over and review content and modular, this helps with the design adaption in the future and is cost effective.)
- Content that appeals to a digital audience.
Key Principles
Needs to be short and finds “application” points (ie the few essential items required to complete a task or objective.)
- Show and Tell using a 1:1:1 consisting of Bullet Lists
- Stories and associations
- Is recursive
- Top Down understanding.
- Holistic
- Rapid Creation
Six Steps to creating Micro-Learning
Six main steps:-
- Determine Learning
- Design instructional:-
- Goal
- Type of content
- Technology
- Target audience
- Budget
- Content Audit
Start at highest level then show organised logical progressive, separate essential from secondary materials.
- Use visuals, they are good for working memory
- Choose a format and use instructional design methods. Make it meaningful and relevant
- Use one screen with one click information with storyboarding.