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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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This is what is technically termed performance support, a.k.a The video provided sufficient support for me to succeed. I leveraged my existing electrical knowledge (it’s an electric dryer) with the minimal sufficient support to achieve my end. Doing performance support is also worth doing right.

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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. At Upside Learning, we have been doing our bit in spreading knowledge. How to Have a Learning Conversation.

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Scenario-based learning: Success Factors

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The performance objectives established should clearly be represented in the choices of action the learner chooses from. The choices of action should be plausible and be active. The alternatives to the right answer ideally are the ways performers typically go wrong. Obviously, bad choices aren’t useful to support learning.

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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 we can put the answer in the world, we can explore performance support. What isn’t happening that should (or vice versa)? You need to test.

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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. There are specific types of content that serve important, but different, roles in supporting learning. Here, we’re taking those models in different situations and showing how to use them in context as a guide to performance.

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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.