Microlearning Thoughts – Conversations With Learning Leaders

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To me that stood out as the key word when you thought… Sam: Yeah, and that was probably learned through a few missteps when we first started doing some of this, so it’s like “Oh, we’ll capture these documents and make them available as downloadable content” and kind of thinking of it as microlearning but it’s not the same thing – that’s more of a resource. But we have an entire what we call a school of informal learning of World Bank talks that’s kind of like Ted plus YouTube plus a document repository, but it’s where we can collect these microlearning assets. So it’s not just ‘watch a bunch of modules’ or ‘sit through a workshop’, but it could be a blend of a lot of different modalities and because we’ve got the xAPI functionality built in, we could start to track and integrate and build a more complete picture of a learner’s training history than just taking reports. So we built more capability into the portal side of things; the microlearning stuff is on a Drupal platform, so we’ve got some programmers at the bank that have kind of customized some pieces there to allow us to better track what people are doing, but it’s still not linked back to the LMS at this point, so we’re going to have to look for a better solution for that in the next year. And so pretty quickly it becomes white noise and your learners can kind of disengage, so be intentional about it, think about really how best to use it and when to use it, and recognize that it’s not the solution for everything, so don’t try to force everything into the microlearning bucket just because it’s the latest ‘widget’ that everybody is talking about, because it won’t work and it will probably set you back in a lot of ways.

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