Advantages of Microlearning training in the digital age

Online training is one of the dominant trends in the present time and Microlearning is a good way to achieve optimal efficiency.

Research has shown that we learn more and retain better when we focus on studying in short periods of time instead of being forced to sit in hourly classes - but certainly in each of us. spent "the youth" sitting in classrooms and knew that he was bored to tears.

Honestly, Microlearning is very suitable for the digital technology era when everyone has a mobile phone and the majority have a "downtime", for example, it takes 1-2 hours to commute to work every day.

While primitive microlearning forms like flashcards and quiz books have been known for over a century, when combined with modern eLearning, they have flourished even more when exploited into the internal archives. Extensive content, add multimedia elements, optimize gamification, or take advantage of **spaced repetition**(where content is shown to learners at specific intervals for enhanced recording mind).

**spaced repetition** is a technique of increasing the time between reviews to exploit the spacing effect. In other studies, this technique has other names such as spaced rehearsal, expanding rehearsal, graduated intervals, repetition spacing, repetition scheduling, spaced retrieval and expanded retrieval**

Advantages of Microlearning

1. Efficiency One of the great advantages of Microlearning is that it can help learners encapsulate knowledge and fill gaps in skills quickly. For example, Microlearning Seneca's online learning platform provides in-depth case studies (under 5 topics: Leadership, Management, Sales, Communication & Marketing, Soft Skills) every day with duration from 5-7 minutes, the content is short - independent - with the right focus, helping to solve or immediately provide a specific lesson for learners to apply immediately at work.

2. Low investment budget The production cost for Microlearning is much lower than the cost of producing a conventional course because Microlearning mainly focuses on short-term training.

3. Quick results Concise content - Quick acquisition - Apply immediately: from soft skills, professional skills to foreign languages.

4. Utilities in tagging, marking lessons: Tutorials can be tagged for easy finding, access and reuse.

5. Suitable for busy work environments: Microlearning is a solution that busy learners will appreciate because it's not as frustrating as a long training day or even an hour or two of online learning.

6. Attractive and interesting Make use of multimedia, Gamification.

7. Simple Learners can study anywhere and it doesn't take too long to complete a single session.

With the above advantages, it can be confirmed that Microlearning learning method is suitable for businesses that want to minimize investment budget in training and still achieve efficiency, learners can also flexibly study in busy life like the present. At the same time, Microlearning also demonstrates that using mobile devices is ready to "replace" desktop learning.

Microlearning is a perfect piece for the total eLearning solution and an indispensable "companion" to traditional training.

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