Microlearning: Short-Form Learning for Long-Term Impact

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The use of microlearning in the workplace has many advantages for learners and talent development professionals. Learners use short, quickly consumable and digestible content— such as videos, job aids, infographics, podcasts, or minicourses—to reinforce previous learning or assist them in completing a specific task. For talent development departments, microlearning assets are quicker and more cost efficient to create and disseminate, allowing them to respond faster to emergent training needs. Recently, rapid advances in technology, along with the COVID-19 pandemic and a corresponding increase in remote and hybrid work, have dramatically increased employees’ time online and demands on their schedules. The pace of today’s work environment means they have even less time to devote to learning than they did before. How can microlearning fit into this new standard? Microlearning: Short-Form Learning for Long-Term Impact draws on a sample of 271 talent development professionals to answer key questions around microlearning and highlight best practices.

The use of microlearning in the workplace has many advantages for learners and talent development professionals. Learners use short, quickly consumable and digestible content— such as videos, job aids, infographics, podcasts, or minicourses—to reinforce previous learning or assist them in completing a specific task. For talent development departments, microlearning assets are quicker and more cost efficient to create and disseminate, allowing them to respond faster to emergent training needs. Recently, rapid advances in technology, along with the COVID-19 pandemic and a corresponding increase in remote and hybrid work, have dramatically increased employees’ time online and demands on their schedules. The pace of today’s work environment means they have even less time to devote to learning than they did before. How can microlearning fit into this new standard? Microlearning: Short-Form Learning for Long-Term Impact draws on a sample of 271 talent development professionals to answer key questions around microlearning and highlight best practices.