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Six common micro-learning myths

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Micro-learning can justifiably be accused of being the latest digital learning bandwagon, here today, gone tomorrow. If a digital resource achieves its goal without overloading or boring the learner then it’s probably small enough. We’ve been developing solutions based on many, short digital learning resources for many years now.

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M-learning: What's the big deal?

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Just released is the eLearning Guild’s new report, Mobile Learning: The Time Is Now , put together by Clark Quinn, who really knows his stuff on this topic. Before that, the very idea of mobile learning was a bit bizarre. Their jobs are inherently mobile. If Clark says the time is now, it probably is. Now you can.

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So what actually is learning content?

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Today I sat down, just as I did ten years ago, to write a set of checklists and standards for digital learning content as applied to the workplace. Tags: digital content. Simple exposition? Instruction? Guided discovery? Exploration? Is the content really designed for learning at all?

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Digital video: the new medium of choice

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If you do a good job you'll end up with a nugget of communication, perhaps only a few minutes long, but one that will reach a bigger audience in so many more contexts (online, at live events, on mobile devices) than your typical paper, slide show or interactive lesson.

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Insights: L&D is playing a key role in supporting informal learning

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In the Learning Insights Report, they use the term in quite a restricted way, to refer to the use of digital content on an on-demand basis - resources rather than courses. By producing digital content in this granular fashion, you dramatically extend it's usefulness. They are a relic of another age.

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Is the net generation really unique?

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"They are variously known as the Net Generation, Millennials, Generation Y or Digital Natives. Only a small fraction of students may count as true digital natives, in other words. The rest are no better or worse at using technology than the rest of the population. " This certainly accords with my experience.

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Because you can use one technology doesn't mean you can use them all

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It's quite possible that a great many people have learned how to do what they want to do with mobile phones and games machines without having a clue how they work. According to the survey, students prefer courses that use a great deal of technology, provided there is adequate support in using the tools.

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