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Leveraging Mobile Learning Platforms As Performance Support Systems

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This post specifically talks about how a Mobile Learning Platform can be used as an effective Performance Support System. What is a ‘Performance Support System’? If they need to understand something in greater detail, the learners can access the other components of the performance support system.

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Microlearning is None of These Things!

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One says “it’s like YouTube, you look something up and it helps you get it done.” This is what is technically termed performance support, a.k.a The video provided sufficient support for me to succeed. Trying to put it into my head as learning first, then having me perform, wouldn’t make sense.

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15 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest –10

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The past weeks have seen a flurry of Web activity – bloggers making predictions for the coming months; retrospections on the year gone by; new product releases; top lists, summary posts being pulled up, and more. Videos that will not just help you, but inspire. At Upside Learning, we have been doing our bit in spreading knowledge.

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Microlearning Best Practices

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Instead, the two different forms of microlearning, spacing or performance support, spring from different needs. What’s critical is to start by analyzing the performance gap. If it’s a skill gap that has to be in the head, spaced learning has the potential to help. What isn’t happening that should (or vice versa)?

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Four Steps to Deeper Learning

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To make meaningful change, we need to focus on actual performance issues. Yet too often our introductions to the learning fail to help learners comprehend the relevance of the learning. There are specific types of content that serve important, but different, roles in supporting learning.

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Overcome These Common Challenges of Microlearning

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This helps you accurately identify the nature of the problem. That is, you need to know what is causing the performance gap. If it’s a situation where knowledge ‘in the world’ helps, you’ve got a call for one form of microlearning. What is the change needed to address the identified gap in performance? How is it measured?

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The Costs of Doing Microlearning the Wrong Way

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First, microlearning in either flavor – the ‘YouTube’ in-the-moment support or the drip-irrigation approach to learning over time – makes sense when either of those models characterizes your needs. However, if you need swift upskilling in the shortest possible time, or guided support via a human, microlearning isn’t the answer.