Bite-sized learning is short and highly focused on one key objective per module. Bite-sized learning is an emerging practice in eLearning, and many companies have adopted it for the training of their workers because of its significance.
Organizations, schools, and trainers have benefited from the use of technologies in training employees. Furthermore, learning & development professionals have adapted training courses to meet up the needs of trainers.
During training, workers are distracted, loaded with too much information, or busy due to their work. The aim is to train workers effectively without affecting their work routine and overall productivity of the company. L&D professionals often create bite-sized learning modules to train their workers.
The significance of bite-sized learning
1. Improves psychological engagement
Every eLearning professional wants to boost engagement and eliminate boredom or distraction in learning. Boredom reduces learners’ attention during training.
Hence, breaking down large-sized learning course content into fractions helps reduce boredom and distractions. For example, Instead of spending hours on a course, trainers spend between 5 – 15 minutes on the bite-sized version of it, yet still meaningful.
This technique can help avoid mental burnout and help them carefully assimilate the course content. In other words, it helps to reduce the complexity of a longer course to a shorter version to be easily absorbed by the trainers without exhausting them.
2. Takes full advantage of the learner’s natural energy
If you have ever been to a training that lasts for hours, you will agree with me that it is not easy for learners to remain focused in training that lasts for an extended time. Even when you are sitting, you will want to move from your desk, staring out of the window, or even reach out for water. What I’m trying to say is that we are likely to pause and do something else.
To take full advantage of the learner’s potential, you must give them a period of rest by breaking down the course into bite-sized modules. By so doing, they will be able to focus their energy on one objective per module.
3. Improves memory
You will agree that it is easier to assimilate and memorize short and single objective focused content than a large one. And this is because our brain loves can process information in chunks. For example, bite-sized contents will make learning to be effortless easier to assimilate for a long-term memory than rather long and continuous learning.
Learners can remember up to 70-90% of the training when they learned at their own pace. And are not rushed into learning all the content at a stretch. Bite-sized learning is even better when similar points are grouped and only relevant contents are added. This allows learners to memorize only relevant points only.
4. Leads to better learning result and increase ROI
Every organization aims to get a better result after training their employees and increased their ROI. Bite-sized learning reduces the time and cost of producing and delivering training. Bite-sized learning creates quick and impactful learning that is reused over a long period. However, Companies can get better results from training courses and also improve the ROI on training budgets.
For example, bite-sized learning materials like video will take less time to be completed by the developer and cost less than a large-sized learning video. In the long run, bite-sized learning will have more impact on employees and the company’s ROI.
5. Adapts to modern learning behavior
Nowadays, learners prefer to learn at their own pace without being compelled by anyone. But unlike the traditional method, they prefer to learn anywhere and on any device of their choice.
Bite-sized learning has adapted this as one of its features. Learners can be anywhere in the world, and they can access learning materials at any time and on any device they prefer. Gone are the days when learners assembled in a classroom to receive course training instructions and materials.
Bite-sized learning suits modern learning behavior because learners can assess information easily. And can easily fit into anyone’s schedules even the busy and those that multi-task.
6. Give learners higher senses of achievement
Bite-sized learning gives learners a sense of achievement when they can complete like 3-5 modules. This achievement will motivate them to finish the full training without getting bored or distracted along the way.
For example, when learners complete up to 3 modules, they feel a sense of achievement compared to when they are midway to completing the long training course. They are motivated to complete the bite-sized course but can be discouraged by the long training course.
