At the risk of stating the obvious, microlearning is a brief and targeted learning approach where learners consume instructional content in short chunks or bites. Millennials learn differently: they want to pull information on their own at the time they require, rather than being pushed from the other side. Their attention span is also falling, and the world is shifting fast from degree-based to skill-based learning pedagogy.

1. 9 Tips to Create Engaging Microlearning Content
What is Microlearning?
At the risk of stating the obvious, microlearning is a brief and targeted learning
approach where learners consume instructional content in short chunks or bites.
Millennials learn differently: they want to pull information on their own at the time
they require, rather than being pushed from the other side. Their attention span is
also falling, and the world is shifting fast from degree-based to skill-based learning
pedagogy.
Microlearning is, therefore, a product of the times—it‟s about closing skill and
knowledge gaps with „micro‟ information nuggets, which is specific to user
requirement, easy to understand, and solves the learner‟s problem at run-time.
Microlearning Examples
Let‟s see the different ways microlearning can be leveraged in your day to day
business. Here are 9 tips to help you develop and implement effective
microlearning content strategies for your organization:
1. Choose your targeted microlearning format
Acknowledge that people learn differently. Some prefer visuals, some are auditory
learners, while others may respond more to kinesthetics. Microlearning caters to
different types of audience based on their preferred learning styles, and which format
you choose is dependent on the kind of content you want to create and the intended
audience you want to reach out to. So videos work when teaching soft skills, flash

2. cards work when teaching hard skills and assessments work when you want to refresh
what was already consumed. Take a business decision based on your target audience.
2. Ensure readers take away a definite one-line message
out of your micro-learning content
Unless there is a clearly defined learning objective that emerges out of every
microlearning module, you may have missed the bus. There are so many videos out
there on the internet that are otherwise beautifully made and you enjoy watching
them, but at the end you did not find any definite takeaway. Did you just run a series
how to drive a car where you talked everything about cars except how to drive them?
Keep this in mind: every microlearning module should carry in itself a one-line
message that clearly comes out without an effort.
Tools like Magisto and StepShot are popular in microlearning milieu for creating
videos.
3. Use Audio intelligently
Effective use of audio could just be the game changer. Cut down on unnecessary
voiceovers. Supply audio only to the extent of supporting the visuals. Also,
microlearning does not mean you have to necessarily go for narration-style audio.
Sometimes an enchanting background score works better to complement the
messaging and the context. Just don‟t go overboard with the sound effects and
sync the pace correctly.
Omnisphere and WaveLab are popular audio tools these days.
4. Use Slideshows/Infographics as interactive learning
modules
Use as much representational graphics and illustrations as you can to make learning
appear visually descriptive. Dumping plain content in bullet points and reading them out
is almost an insult to your audience. Blend compelling visuals with concise text.
Highlight trends and product features that stand out. When you pair a fact or statistics

3. with a graphic illustration, it adds weight to your point and learners tend to retain it
more (just don‟t do an overkill, be it with the stat or in the design, and avoid
putting excessive information).
Visme is a super cool infographic maker that allows you to create interactive
presentations. WhileVisualize.me focuses on letting users create infographic resumes.
5. Use lesson-based Podcasts
Auditory learners simply go gaga over podcasts. In a way, podcasts personalize
training by arranging a conversational framework, letting an employee access
training at their suitable time basis their availability and workload. The best thing
about it is you can take a podcast even when you are on your morning walk or on the
treadmill in the gym! So you could either go to popular podcast sites like
SoundCloud or just create ones yourself.
6. Include Quizzes
Maybe when we were students, the surprise tests and assessments looked
cringeworthy. Surprisingly as it may sound, no student has ever hated a quiz!
Because it‟s gamified by nature, even with learning as its bedrock. It‟s in fact a very
good way to recap the information and summarize what had been taught. On the
trainer side, quizzes help identify which are the areas learners are lagging behind in
and accordingly the trainer could adjust their approach by tracking the progress of
individual learners.
Some of the popular quiz creation tools are ProProfs, QuizMaker, and Articulate
Rise, among others.
7. Go Mobile
If you are in 2018, you have to be responsive on mobile. In fact, the more mobile-
friendly you are, the better will be the consumption of your microlearning content.
Mobile-friendliness and microlearning go hand in hand. Create your microlearning
online tutorials with responsive design tools with optimized layouts, legible fonts,
and seamless navigations.

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8. Democratize and incentivise content creation
In the knowledge world, expertise no longer lies with a single person. For instance,
within a digital marketing team, there may be an ace digital marketer who
understands how LinkedIn Ads work and another who understands how Facebook
Ads work. It is a good idea to distribute the burden of content creation to your staff
and create “topic owners” whose job it is to codify and disseminate knowledge.
Requesting everybody to create content is not enough. What‟s in it for them? The
best learning organisations bring knowledge creation as a part of annual appraisals.
And the ninth could be your best business strategy
What do your employees presently do for their learning and development: search on
the internet for online training materials, right? How about making their lives easier
with a targeted approach to disperse micro learning training resources, saving them a
huge amount of time efforts. Create an online training metadata and collate all
learning content into one centralized location. Divide the training content into
distinct categories, and thereafter go the microlearning way with bite-sized content
snacks. This would go a long way in facilitating online training for your corporate
learners and they would be able to address the knowledge and skill gaps in a better
way. Workplace productivity and the overall business performance then goes up as a
natural upshot!
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