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Microlearning implementation

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May 24, 2019

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Implementing microlearning is essential to establish a dynamic and adaptive company, which is vital in any shifting and fluid market. However, in order to effectively implement a microlearning strategy, particular steps must be taken to successfully adopt this strategy for optimal training of your employees.

What You Should Know about Implementing Microlearning

Implementing a microlearning program in the wake of the millennial age potentially may have you feeling somewhat like a fish out of water. t’s a very different style of adaptive learning, but that’s where we come in.

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Microlearning has various focuses on certain learning objectives, dependent on different modules. Channeling relevant and connected information into one module allows employees to focus entirely on one specific topic, enabling them to exercise their knowledge retention ability. This type of learning facilitates the physical application of course material to employees’ roles within the company, catering to a variety of learning styles and skillsets.

The implementation and use of microlearning also promotes an effective work life balance, which is particularly important for our physical and mental health. A work life balance sustains motivation and engagement, fostering diligence and objective achievement in the workplace.

The return on investment of microlearning for business is undeniably high and worthwhile, given the lower costs for training module development, as well as enhanced skills of employees. The modules are also applicable to ongoing training, not just utilised for the onboarding of new staff. Information can be chopped and changed, dependent on employee needs and changes in the company and industry as a whole. An element of dynamism can be achieved with microlearning modules, key to keeping up with an ever changing workforce in which training methods evolve at rapid rates.

The bottom line is that implementing microlearning is incredibly valuable to overall company success through a modern approach to corporate training. Microlearning positively evolves and strengthens staff training into a basis for greater retention of new knowledge, in a shorter amount of time.

You may also be interested in how to avoid common mistakes made in implementing microlearning. Click here to check it out, or copy the link, https://www.edapp.com/blog/mistakes-in-implementing-microlearning/

Want to learn how to implement microlearning? 

If all of the above resonates and you’ve got to train a large, disparate group or workforce in the latest practices and policies of your organisation, get in touch at enquiries@edapp.com. You can also try EdApp’s Mobile LMS and authoring tool for free by signing up here.

 

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https://trainingindustry.com/blog/content-development/implementing-microlearning-in-the-millennial-age/

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Guest Author Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown is a senior technical editor and writer that has worked in the education and technology sectors for two decades. Their background experience includes curriculum development and course book creation.