Back in 2017, the Association for Talent Development (ATD) conducted a survey on microlearning. According to their research results, 92% of organizations are already using microlearning and planned to do more of it. More than 67% of organizations not using microlearning…
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How Story Characters Help Learners Learn Difficult and Sensitive Topics – Tip #169
Sensitive topics, like sexual abuse or harassment, dealing with personal failures (where learners have an emotional stake) and handling “no correct answer” situations (gray areas at work), can be difficult to teach. These topics create in learners the following: Discomfort…
How Empathy Makes Your Learners Learn – Tip #168
Back in 2012, Time named Google Glass one of the best inventions of the year, but Google pulled out the headset in 2015 after a short-lived release in 2014. What happened? Empathy Gap In marketing speak, Google Glass failed because…
5 Proven Ways to Help Learners Remember Lessons – Tip #167
Learner engagement is a constant challenge for designers and trainers. Learners are hounded by countless information media. So how do we help them recall, retain and eventually apply what they learn? Ponder these ideas and see how it can help…
Pixar in a Box: Lessons on Storytelling – Tip #166
“Monsters, Inc.” is a Pixar animated movie that features monsters going to work scaring kids for a living. At least, that’s how director Pete Docter pitched it originally. And, although people who first heard the idea laughed and thought it…
Why Avoid Comparing Microlearning with Instructional Design – Tip #165
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, explains why many good ideas never become successful ventures (paraphrased): “When we assess an idea, we need to see if the core concept works and has potential to provide solutions and new opportunities.…
Vortex of the Workplace and Microlearning Fix – Tip #164
In the 1997 disaster adventure film, Twister, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton are storm-chasers researching tornadoes. They figure out a way to get the hurricane’s speed, directions, and behavior by positioning their machine inside the eye of the hurricane. Once…
Ray’s Top Blogs on Microlearning – Tip #163
Here are Ray’s top blog-tips to jumpstart your 2018 Microlearning goals and forward steps. Expertise: Why the Odds are Stacked Against Novices – Tip #93We all have some level of expertise knowledge. However, we have to constantly test it and subject…
How to Create Context-Setting Learning Objectives – Tip #162
We are inundated by the constant and steady bombardment of information from just about any form of media available – on a daily basis. So how do we help learners focus on usefulness and context of the content and to…
Going Beyond the Microlearning Fad Effect – Tip #161
When asked where Microlearning works and where it doesn’t, we say Microlearning works best in the real world. By tradition, most training and learning takes place in “recreated worlds,” where we attempt to replicate work conditions in artificial or suspended…
Who Owns “Microlearning?” The Learners Do. Not Grovo.
Grovo, Inc. (founded 2010) has trademarked the term “Microlearning”, reported by Chief Learning Officer. CLO states this is currently on a Supplemental Status. This is another attempt of a Goliath overshadowing the small folks made up of many Davids. Microlearning is too…
Microlearning Leapfrogging – How to Succeed Against All Odds – Tip #160
This year I’ve had projects that I would classify as instances of leapfrogging. Leapfrogging means vaulting from traditional, basic brick-and-mortar (classroom) learning into the rapid and instant Microlearning approach. What the client wanted was to have their group of instructional…
21 Things To Do Before a Webinar – Tip #159
These are some important items on my checklist that I go through to prepare before a webinar. And when I follow these religiously, I succeed! 1 Design a truly interactive and no-lecture webinar. 2 Prepare primary and secondary exercises or…
What Happens If There Is a Chip On Your Windshield? Cases of Microlearning Impacts – Tip #158
Monitoring the impacts and contributions of Microlearning is like figuring out how fast you are falling while you are actually falling from the sky. We can only catch glimpses of moments of impacts rather than substantive end-of-the-year “bean counter” ROI…
Microlearning is The “It’s-Always-There” Solution – Tip #157
What happens to the behaviors of learners and workers after they have been accustomed to Microlearning? For over 10 years I have seen early adoptions and maturing implementation of Microlearning. They all come in different forms and shapes, which is…