So, how often do you adjust your training to meet new microlearning trends to deliver useful training? Yearly, microlearning always comes with exciting new trends that organizations can leverage to convey a better learning experience for their employees.
In this article, we’ll be looking at the latest microlearning trends in L&D, and how you can leverage them to achieve better training ROI.
A quick look into microlearning and its benefits to your organization
Microlearning is a holistic approach in e-learning that deals with using small learning units to deliver training. It involves designing bite-sized learning nuggets to help learners acquire and retain knowledge, with each nugget meeting a specific learning outcome.
Microlearning is a useful learning approach in e-learning, that’s because of its several benefits to learners and instructors. Here are some of the benefits attached to using it.
- It helps instructors to deliver a sticky learning experience that learners crave.
- It helps instructors to achieve a high completion rate.
- It’s short and focuses on a specific learning outcome.
- It can get used to delivering on the go training.
- It supports multiple devices and browsers.
- It’s cost-effective and saves time for development.
- It utilizes high Impact training format like e-learning videos, to deliver engaging courses.
Six microlearning trends to watch out and adopt
Gamification and Microlearning
In a corporate organization, almost all employees prefer training that is engaging and fun. And no doubt, gamification can help to drive employee engagement.
So, how can we combine microlearning with gamification to deliver engaging training? Integrating gamification in your microlearning training will enable your learners to acquire knowledge through playing short games on their mobile devices.
That can also help them retain the knowledge acquired during the training. One way of using gamification with microlearning is by leveraging gamified nuggets in micro-learning formats.
Also, you can design gamified assessments and offer them as performance support tools.
Focusing your Microlearning on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics
Artificial Intelligence or Machine Intelligence is the simulation of the machines to work and think like humans. So, by capitalizing on AI and analytics, you can get to offer your learners personalized learning paths and support.
Sometimes, when there are many microlearning assets, it can be hard for learners to choose the right one for their needs. However, artificial intelligence can help to pick articles from a curated pool of content for learners.
That’ll ensure that learners come for more even after completion of a particular learning course. On the other hand, learning analytics can help you determine if your learners need additional resource support.
Are you interested in knowing how many of your microlearning assets got used? Or are you interested in knowing if your microlearning assets were able to help your learners convert their knowledge into performance?
Learning analytics is there to ensure you get answers that matter. Few organizations are already using this emerging trend to assess the impact of their training on learners.
For wider spectrum of corporate training
Microlearning can get used for a spectrum of an organization’s corporate training. It can help create change management training, just-in-time training, informal and formal training, awareness program, and instructor-led training support aids.
Increased focus on mobile learning
According to research, the global workforce is increasingly becoming mobile, and over 42.5% of them will become mobile employees come 2022.
What that means is that there should be more shift to mobile learning for employee engagement. The emerging trend of microlearning is now focusing more on mobile learning.
Mobile learning is the right tool to provide learners with engaging and on the go learning experience. That’ll enable learners to learn at their convenience.
Utilized in content curation
Microlearning will positively impact a large area of content curation and get utilize to deliver continuum learning. That means organizations can improve on their learning culture, and deliver a better learning experience.
Promoting collaborative and social learning
Microlearning strategy will also promote more social learning and collaborative learning. That means that employees will be in charge of their learning and can be able to interact more with each other to acquire knowledge.
Hopefully, these emerging microlearning trends can help you to adjust your training to deliver a better learning experience for your learners.
