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Discover all the best ways you can blend microlearning and macrolearning to achieve higher-impact workplace training for your organization.

"In a world where everyone has unlimited access to information at their fingertips, learning needs to adapt in order to maintain relevance by taking advantage of technology."

"When it comes to new information, our brains have a strict ‘use it or lose it’ policy. And too often, training content is forgotten within the first hour of employees learning it. Don’t let this be you! Find out how to use microlearning and spaced repetition to make your training results last."

By shortening whole-group instruction to around nine minutes, a high school's dean of instruction says students have more time to be creative and collaborative in the classroom.

If you want to have a comprehensive and precise idea on what microlearning is, discover 5 Microlearning Myths you need to stop believing, and debunk them.

"Can microlearning improve student's engagement? Is it more advantageous compared to traditional ways of delivering content? Should microlearning be used in every single course?"

"Computational thinking is an approach to problem-solving where students organize and analyze data, create algorithms, and then develop and use models and simulations to test theories and ideas. It’s an approach that students can use in any subject (yes, even English Language Arts)."

"The editors of "Microlearning in the Digital Age: The Design and Delivery of Learning in Snippets," a new book to be published by the Routledge Taylor & Francis Group in late 2020, are seeking authors interested in writing one of the two remaining unassigned chapters:

Chapter 8. Assessing the Learning in Microlearning. One of the challenges in assessing the learning in microlearning is how to assess learners’ understanding of the content without them knowing they are being assessed. Few people would be enthusiastic about having to take a quiz in the middle of a YouTube video while learning how to change a tire. This chapter will describe creative ways to embed assessments into microlearning objects that enable learners to check their knowledge and understanding while providing instructors with feedback on learner performance.

Chapter 15. Microlearning: Future Directions. A recent report addressing microlearning adoption trends in professional organizations, found that 40% currently used microlearning for professional development and training and an additional 41% planned to start in the near future (ATD Research, 2018). Is microlearning an effective instructional technology or a passing fad? As mobile technologies evolve, how will microlearning expand and adapt? How will artificial intelligence, mixed/virtual reality and virtual assistants like Siri, Google Play, and Alexa be impacting the learning experience in the next 3 – 5 years? This chapter will analyze current microlearning research and practices as well as trends in mobile, personalized, and adaptive learning to predict how microlearning may evolve in the next 5 to 10 years.

If you have written about e-learning, mobile learning, and/or microlearning, we invite you to contact us to discuss how you might be selected to write one of the afore-mentioned chapters. Please email me at rene.corbeil@utrgv.edu and include a recent vita.

"As microlearning-based training moves to center stage, I outline what is driving its rapid adoption. In this article, I also share microlearning trends in 2019, and how you can leverage them to boost employee performance."

"Microlearning is a method of delivering short, snackable content that's ideal for a mobile training solution. Find out some more of the benefits here!"

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