“All great things come in small packages” is an age-old saying, and it fits best in today’s e-learning industry. The new-age audiences or learners need targeted learning and their focus on knowing specific things is also unwavering. Under such a scenario, it gets crucial to restructure the unnecessarily lengthy online learning material to meet their needs with effective and efficient engagement.

Actually, lengthy course material is created keeping in view not only the common learners but also staffers of various companies. And the courses designed this way make it really very difficult for learners to find and explore the meaningful content which they need when confronted with a particular task while at their desk. This happens particularly during sales and product training sessions where the participants have to keep themselves updated about all the latest know-how for organizational successes.

This post discusses in detail about why it’s high time to make a paradigm shift from lengthy e-learning course materials to microlearning:

1. Table of Contents

   Easy and enriched delivery in various multimedia formats

Microlearning is all about diversified solutions. The sawed-off e-learning modules created for training purposes can easily be delivered in a large number of formats including interactive animations, e-books, videos, and PDFs. The material in these formats provides the learners with an impressive, high impact and engaging training experience. Microlearning in these diversified formats is designed and developed specifically for fulfilling certain learning objectives. With these short and crisp modules in place, a learning environment comes into play in which learners find themselves comfortable.

2. Micro-learning modules are easy to access on mobile devices

Since mobile devices are a part and parcel of modern lifestyle, learners are accessing information on the web making use of smartphones and tablets. They find large-sized course material difficult to access on the said devices. Since the size of the screen makes lengthy courses cumbersome and difficult to read, learners usually go for small chunks of learning modules which serve them with meaningful and technically feasible content.

The micro-learning modules which are created for Learning Management Systems such as Moodle deliver e-learning content in chunks. These pieces of information are called nuggets and they are not more than 3 to 5 minutes long. These clutter-free modules can be viewed with ease on all mobile screens. Optimizing these small nuggets provides the learners with complete freedom to go through the content, exactly as per their needs.

3. The “moment of need” support

The learners who utilize their smartphones to access quick information in order to solve their problems can seek instant performance support from microlearning modules. This way, they can get support at the time when they need it most. LMSs prove to be of great support in creating such modules which are considered to be ideal to fill the all concise learning gaps.

4. Microlearning courses are easy to develop and update

Microlearning modules are shorter when compared to conventional modules. In microlearning modules, content can be created quickly and easily, which in turn reduces the overall development cost. It often takes a week or even more than that to create a large module, but in microlearning, what it takes is just specific and relevant information. What’s more, when any update is required, it is easier to update small chunks than the entire learning course.

Conclusion

Microlearning engages the learners far better than conventional eLearning systems because it is designed to serve specific learning purposes. The modules are of shorter duration and no piece of content is more than a ten minutes’ read. This way, learners don’t experience any fatigue of going through lengthy courses and retain more relevant information.

The organizations looking for quick wins through training of their employees on the latest features of their products or services or willing to train their manpower about any particular technique which can be applied for negottion must opt for microlearning courses.

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