PSA has frequently looked at learning in the 21st century, and noted that learning MOs will somehow have to match up to current ways of life in a “cloud connected always on” world. While it’s not too hard to assemble lists of different approaches to learning, it can be hard to imagine how the various parts can form a whole that can supersede conventional learning as we have known it.
For example, we know about “The Flipped Classroom”, and “Just in Time Learning” and “Adaptive Learning” to name just three disruptive approaches. “Microlearning” should be on that list too, though such terms can mean something different depending on the user, and the way those approaches work together is the real take-away for educators. That can be harder to imagine.
Here’s one take on MicroLearning for Business.
Rapid business change presents learning designers and developers with both challenges and opportunities. The ever-shifting technological landscape pressures companies to respond with organizational changes. They are constantly faced with challenges such as:
•Gaining first-to-market advantage
•Preventing product obsolescence
•Coping with constant changes in policies, prices and customer needs
•Supporting agile product design, development and distribution
•Adhering to new compliance standards
Microlearning enables learning stakeholders to meet these changes head on. In particular, it helps:
•Disrupt results with faster, better, less costly learning
•Facilitate learning while in the workflow and as needed
•Develop and implement compliance programs by trickles, snippets and spaced-out delivery
•Embed tips, checklists, solutions in software, processes and other guides
•Aid learning in very fluid business environments
•Enable real-time collaboration between engineers, operations, administration, marketing, customer support, and learning and development departments
•Deliver Microlearning in layers of learning and performance systems