Workplace MicroLearning

When designing and developing a workplace, we know the aim is results based on the business's overall success. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Return on Investment (ROI) are industry terms related to that success. The workplace provides a unique environment that can be limited to the employees on training development, seen as a bump in the daily production task, tedious, and difficult to access. Experts believe that learning is essential to job performance because of its ubiquitous nature throughout the world (Moore & Klien, 2019). Like most adult learners, they prefer self-paced and self-directed aspects of learning, so that is where microlearning enters (Mery, 2022). 

Microlearning has been around since the 1960s; it can be described generally as follows: Small chunks, short effort, and low time commitment; although it is narrowly focused, it is complex as a whole (Mery, 2022), which can be challenging for any instructional designer to create. It starts with a lot of questions, interviews, and research in a corporate environment, maybe even observations of the employees. Creating a targeted experience can be fun with a lot of work. A microlesson I created recently was targeted at a fictional advertising company that wanted to restructure old-fashioned management methods into current, proven methods to maximize employee performance. 

This team-based management course follows standard microlearning activities, including content, guided learning, practice, and feedback to assess success (Mery, 2022). This course is intended to reflect the business's brand, apply the language used with company structure, and provide case studies to support change. Easy access and navigation avoid barriers that could deter employees from completing. This course was hosted in Squarespace using a template with a status bar that notifies a facilitator when it is completed or not started. A video presentation was incorporated to motivate the audience to participate (Mery, 2022). Ideally, the course would continue based on the methods of team-based management, giving more details into each case study with examples of how to communicate. 

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References

Mery, Y. (2022). Chapter 2: A case for microlearning. Library Technology Reports, 58(5), 10–13.

Moore, A. L., & Klein, J. D. (2020). Facilitating informal learning at work. TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 64(2), 219–228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-019-00458-3