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Monday, August 19, 2024

Microlearning

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If the title seems like another fictional word you need to learn in order to know the current IT trends and in case you are tired of such practice, after reading this blog it will be clear that you knew its meaning a long time ago and that you could create this phrase after a short reflection by yourself.

In the blogs you have had the opportunity to read so far, we talked about a large number of different details from the world of eLearning, modern technologies and everyday challenges we face as a society, and many of them emphasized one general dimension of the problematic topic. Today we will concretely approach one of the processes in online learning that we design for different teaching purposes.

In order to summarize the content that may interest you to further explore this topic, we have divided it into three different chapters, giving answers to simple questions.

What is Microlearning?

We do not have consensus about definitions for an increasing number of terms in the 21st century, while in parallel an increasing number of terms lose their unambiguity and some long-established formulations change their connotations. We could say that Microlearning is one of the standardized eLearning terms that denote learning processes by which we deliver information in small, rounded quantities in a concise and balanced way to quickly transfer knowledge through a classic story with an introduction, main and final message.

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