Microlearning in e-learning involves breaking down of an e-learning course content into bite-sized modules, with each meeting a specific learning objective.

Every year, new opportunities and trends emerge in the e-learning industry for SMEs to leverage into their learning system. So, how well do you use the microlearning trends to deliver efficient online training for your learners?

Below are some of the trends in e-learning that you can leverage to provide an accessible e-learning program.

Microlearning and Gamification

Microlearning in the e-learning industry has gone far beyond how people used to see it. With the advancement in technology, there have been new opportunities and trends of microlearning.

That focus on several aspects of learning, including gamification. So, how can one combine both microlearning and gamification to deliver the required learning results?

The Gamification technique helps to introduce a fun and sticky learning experience, with the use of gaming principles and related elements. You can use gamification to enhance microlearning in the following ways.

• You can offer a gamified assessment in your microlearning course. You can do that by embedding gamification elements like scores, lives, and points into your evaluation. 

• You can also offer gamified nuggets that allow learners to practice and learn something new, apply knowledge, and solve existing problems.

By so doing, you can help to enhance knowledge retention amidst learners and provided the needed motivation and engagement to finish a course.

Microlearning and Artificial intelligence (AI)

Another trend of microlearning in the e-learning industry will focus on AI and analytics to provide a personalized learning path and support to learners.

Artificial intelligence is a machine that is capable of solving human-related problems. You can use AI to reshape e-learning in several ways including answering real-time questions, providing improved accessibility, and generating new content.

With the latest technologies that support microlearning, AI plays a vital role in creating customized learning paths for learners. This customized learning path is usually created, based on learners’ performance including their scores, interaction with people, and recently covered courses.

Microlearning and Mobile learning

Microlearning strategy will have an increased focus on mobile learning. Research has it that  68% of respondents work remotely at least once a month.

That means they’ll need a flexible training approach in mobile learning form. With mobile learning, employees or learners can easily acquire learning experience on the go, at their convenience even while attending to other activities.

Most learners crave mobile learning, and by leveraging that into your microlearning, you get to provide more simplified course content for them.

Microlearning and mobile learning approach can create a more efficient e-learning experience for your learners. That’s because the bite-sized or small modules of microlearning will enable mobile users to smoothly access the course content as there’s a decrease in load time.

Microlearning and Virtual Reality

Another trend of microlearning in the e-learning industry will focus on formal training combined with virtual reality (VR) strategy. Virtual reality provides learners with an experiential learning experience.

It takes learners out of their present environment into a virtual world where they needed to get trained. By using VR in your microlearning, you can easily avoid risks faced during practical sessions of your course.

Below are two of the activities of VR in microlearning.

●      Online practical assessment

Virtual reality is a useful tool for providing an excellent functional assessment to learners to help them relate well to real-life tasks. Apart from that, it also helps to mitigate the risk associated with the practice. With VR, learners can worry less about the hazard while focusing on a task and getting the best out of it.

●      Speaking to the crowd

VR is also an excellent tool that helps SMEs and e-learning professionals to train themselves on speaking to thousands. With VR in your microlearning, you get to assist managers having difficulties facing the crowd to deliver a lecture.

With the continuous advancement in technology, microlearning in the e-learning industry will continue to flourish and get rapid adoption by SMEs for their program. 

Microlearning and Social Integration

Even though most people enjoy working remotely at their convenience, some still face one or more barriers. One of the often faced obstacles is loneliness.

While some people enjoy being lonely, there’s a need to provide a remote-friendly workplace for the few people that don’t enjoy loneliness during work. How do we go about using microlearning to provide a remote-friendly workplace?

A way of doing this is to provide a collaborative learning experience for your learners through the web. You can do this by creating relevant, bite-sized modules or video content and using your social learning platform to reach out to remote workers.

With this approach, you can be able to engage and assist your learners in meeting up with their needs.