Why Microlearning is Better for Your Learners

According to a report, learners would use their company’s learning tools more if the courses are shorter.

Some helpful tips:

• Create your bite-sized courses to resemble social media content—on-demand, engaging, and media-rich.
• Engage your audience right from the start and keep at it until the end of the module.
• Cut to the chase. Do away with the history, the background information, and the theories. Deliver the “how-to” right away. Remember, your learners are looking for just-in-time solutions.

ML is the need of the hour because of the way the average modern learner functions in his daily life.

Here’s what a study carried out by the UCI has found:

• Your employee works on a task for about 11 minutes before he is interrupted by a ring or ding of the phone, a popping email, or his co-worker who has come up to his desk.
• Within that span of 11 minutes, he engages in multiple short and quick tasks that average about 3 minutes each.
• If the task involves consuming digital information, he spends just 20 seconds browsing one piece of content before he clicks or flicks through to the next.

According to learning architect Ray Jimenez by creating micro-courses learning developers can reduce costs by 50% and increase the speed of development by 300%.  

Here’s why:

• There’s no need to pay for the instructor’s time, buy or rent physical classrooms and pay for the utilities, and spend money on classroom equipment.
• It is easier and less time- and resource-intensive to update digital information than reprint training manuals and conduct supplementary classroom training sessions.
• It is easier and less time-consuming to roll out microlearning courses because they are modular in nature.