Microlearning Services & Employee-Performance: The Correlation

Employee-training programs can be really long and boring sometimes, hence offering little to no respite to the learners who have taken up the learning course. It can be painstakingly boring, or disengaging, at times. A recent survey conducted by Software Advice says that 58% of the workforce feels a higher sense of engagement with access to tech-driven self-paced learning. The same study concluded that employees retain knowledge for much longer when the course content is divided into bite-sized short gulpable lessons. Enter Microlearning services!

Another study by ATD says – 92% of the firms worldwide leveraging microlearning services believe that its usage will further increase heavily in the near future.

How Microlearning Enhances Employee Productivity

Short-Format Learning Brings Higher Engagement

Learning in short nuggets help employees focus on their training modules, thereby allowing them to retain knowledge for long. Further, adapting to short-form learning content allows employees to consume ‘learning content’ on the go. A few of the many benefits of microlearning comprise higher course completion rates, enhanced employee engagement and retention, and conformance to the granular approach of learning.

Microlearning Helps Neutralize the Effect of Forgetting Curve

As per the forgetting curve concept introduced by Ebbinghaus, the German psychologist, around 50% of the newly acquired knowledge gets lost in mere few days, unless revised by the learners from time to time. To beat the forgetting curve, it’s mandatory to do revisions, which is well-facilitated with the availability of bite-size learning modules under ‘microlearning’.

Vital benefits with microlearning for corporate training:

• Access to just-in-time training.
• Serves as preparatory knowledge to classroom/online training.
• Provides for “learning on the go”, and spaced learning.
• Bite-sized eLearning modules are smartphone-compatible.
  
  

Allows Time-Pressed Employees Find Time for Learning

Microlearning empowers busy employees pressed under work-related deadlines to undertake training in their free time post work hours, as per their comfort. Besides, microlearning modules takes a maximum of 10-13 minutes at length, thereby making it easy to absorb knowledge at any instant of time during the day.

Enforces a Learning Organizational Culture

With implementation of microlearning services, organizations can reuse their existing content library by dividing it into several chunks of microlearning modules, which eventually will allow employees to choose the topic of their choice for learning. This way, a lot of flexibility gets offered to the workforce, by default, in a microlearning setting.

Facilitates Corporate Refresher Training

Availability of information in varied media formats (audio, video, infographics, PDFs, Word, etc.), that too, in short nuggets, makes microlearning an ideal choice for refresher training. Because microlearning modules are short and crisp, and can be easily made available on smartphones, learners can use them as per their needs and preferred time slots.

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