Microlearning: Small Bites, Big Impact.

Instructional design provides us with a variety of tools to streamline the design and delivery of education. To make the transition from the traditional classroom environment to the online classroom took time and the added responsibility to introducing new concepts and strategies to meet the ever changing needs of the learner. As mobile technologies enable learners to take their learning on the go. We need to adapt and restructure our content. This article introduces one of the reasons that micro-learning succeeds which is called "encoding". This concept focuses more on calling back to previous content rather than small chunks of content. The article provides data to point out that overtime, encoding will increase learner satisfaction and content retention.

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