bite-sized learning is the new black
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Session #ECO214Bite-sized Learning Is the
New BlackLisa Whalen, MAT, MSIT, Waters Corporation
Orlando, FL • March 16 – 18, 2016
Bite-sized Learning Is the New Black
By Lisa M. Whalen, MAT, MSIT
What is Bite-size Learning?
Breaking down information into short, bite-size chunks
Too much content…
…but still try to squeeze it all in?
..but it’s all important?
…but wish you could do small module, knowing it better for your audience?
How will this session help?
In this session, you will learn:• The benefits of bite-sized
learning in instructional design (ID)
• How bite-sized chunks can improve the learning process for your users
• How to effectively describe the process for creating bite-sized learning within the ID process
• How to create prototypes for a bite-sized module ID project
• How to improve your ID process by implementing bite-sized modules in your projects
Has this ever happened to you?
Start the day early. Work on tight deadlines throughout the day. Leave late. Go home for dinner followed by running errands. Finally get a moment to sit and relax.
How fried is your brain at that point when you sit down?
What if you just remembered a required elearning you had to do before you got to the office tomorrow morning?
What if that elearning module was a 45 minute module? How much of it would you be able to pay attention to? How much of it would you want to pay attention to?
Is this a day in the life of your audience?
A sales rep starts the day before the sun rises, grabbing breakfast on the go. They travel from appointment to appointment talking to potential customer after customer all day long, basically non-stop. They grab lunch on the go, just like breakfast was and continue their day just like the morning was.
Finally they stop to get some dinner, finish up a few more calls and head home just in time to tuck the kids into bed and get back to the computer to write up sales proposals and enter information into CRM.
After all that, they remember they have some required elearning to do.
How much time would they have to do elearning? How long a module could they handle at that point? How much of 45 minute module would they get through or even remember?
How busy are we, either work or life related?What is our state of mind when it comes to time for elearning?
Example:How do you attend webinars? Do you register for them and then hope to watch them later?
Why were these situations important?
What does research say?
http://blog.grovo.com/7-learned-deloittes-meet-modern-learner/
http://blog.grovo.com/7-learned-deloittes-meet-modern-learner/
http://blog.grovo.com/7-learned-deloittes-meet-modern-learner/
Micro learning suits the constraints of the human brain with respect to its attention span. This approach aligns with research that proves we learn better when engaged in short, focused sessions, than hour-long sessions that cause information overload. In this approach, the learning content is offered in short durations of 3 to 7 minutes at the most to match the human attention span.
Your brain on bite-size elearning
http://elearningindustry.com/awesome-resources-on-micro-learning
Neuroscientists have determined that we can only absorb four to five pieces of information into short-term memory at any given time, so by breaking it into short chunks, it’s easier to understand and assimilate.
Neuroscience and bite-size elearning
Microlearning_Whitepaper_Final_012516.pdfhttp://know.axonify.com/microlearning-whitepaper-ty
The reality is that to meet the needs of today’s modern workers, you need to offer them the ability to access small bites of information at a moment’s notice, so they can pull knowledge at the point of need.
Today’s world – Instant Gratification
Microlearning_Whitepaper_Final_012516.pdfhttp://know.axonify.com/microlearning-whitepaper-ty
5-10 minutes is easier then an hourLess stress on the brain when learning something newMore time to think about what they learned and how to apply it
Benefits of bite-size elearning
In books like The Compound Effect and The Slight Edge, they both talk about doing something towards your personal development in bite-size chunks on a daily basis. They suggest that you read 10 pages a day of a personal development book.Do you have time at night to read a 100 page book? However, what about 10 pages? And after 10 days, that 100 page book is done. How many 100 page books could you read this way?
Example of bite-size elearning
Learners are less overwhelmed
More benefits of bite-size elearning
Have any of your heard of or used Lynda.com? They are amazing at bite-sized chunks of large amounts of information. If you need to learn an entire program, you can by either going through each chapter at your leisure, bits at a time, or the whole thing all at once, chapter after chapter. But the choice is yours, according to your schedule and how much your brain can handle and retain before becoming overwhelmed.
Steps for breaking information down into bite-sized chunks
Think of it like a bookWhat’s the title?
Break the information down into chapters.
Break those chapters into sub-sections within the chapter.
• How will those sub-sections layout on a slide?
• Did you keep those chapters as one chapter?
• Did the content grow into another chapter?
• Do all the chapters fit with the title?
How to take your long modules and make them bite-sized
Example: The Human Body
Chapters• By systems• External vs Internal• Body parts
Chapters – Head, Torso, Limbs
Example: The Human Body continued
Sub-sections for Head• Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Ears,
Brain, Scalp
Sub-sections for Torso• Heart, Lungs, Ribs,
Stomach, Liver, Kidneys, Gall Bladder
Sub-sections for Limbs• Arms, Legs (but within
those, fingers/wrists, toes/ankles)
Break down within all those? Organs, Skeletal
Example: Software - Powerpoint
Chapters• By ribbon tab• By sections in the ribbon
Example: Sales Process
Chapters• By main concepts• By process breakdown
http://www.isixsigma.com/tools-templates/process-mapping/avoid-four-most-common-mistakes-sales-process-mapping/
Example: Compliance
Chapters• Compliance topics• Safety, Sexual
Harassment• Policy & Procedure
required reading documents
• Quiz
Games as bite-sized elearning
Even a game can be used as bite-size chunks of elearning. For example, I created a game that has multiple territories to work through. If you are using an LMS and authoring tool that allows for resuming modules, then your users can work through a game at their leisure while still completing required elearning.
We are instructional designers, which means that you are creative geniuses who can come up with all sorts of ways to provide elearning for your users.
Games as bite-sized elearning
Steps for prototyping within the ID process
1.Micro-prototype development
2.Review with stakeholder3.Full prototype development
(includes design, graphics and full functionality of one section of the project)
4.Review with stakeholder5.Confirm approval of full
prototype6.Replicate out to full build of
complete project from the full prototype
7.Review with stakeholder8.Confirm approval of
completed project9.Publish project
How to create prototypes for an ID project
Prototype on Paper First I will mention a couple of free (for one project at a time anyway) online services for prototyping.
Prototype on Paper allows you to snap pictures of hand drawn pictures, link items on the slide to other slides and send for review. Here’s an example of a paper drawn prototype turned into a clickable prototype:https://popapp.in/w/projects/55253812d089f0e855d08900/mockups/55253813d089f0e855d08904
How to create prototypes for an ID project
InvisionInvision also allows for online collaboration, real-time design collaboration and tours, version control and sync, unlimited user testing with video capture of users testing your prototypes and even has project management built right in.
Here is an example of a web app prototype: https://projects.invisionapp.com/d/main#/projects/5812346/screens(you will need to create a free account to see this sample)
How to create prototypes for an ID project
How to create prototypes for an ID project
I like to use my authoring tool (Articulate Storyline2) to make prototypes because I can start with one file, and just build on that right through to the completed version. I save different versions along the way, but it is easy to keep building this way if my authoring tool is going to be what I build the project in.
I normally up-rev to multiple versions throughout the development process, but for demonstration purposes, I’m going to show you this example in one file with a different scene for each version, micro-prototype, full prototype and final version.
How to improve your ID process by implementing bite-sized modules
• One large project is planned, but it is broken down by mini-projects
• Smaller projects have shorter timelines for development and release
• Flexibility to release the bite-sized modules on a schedule to allow time for absorption, retention and practice
Improve your ID process by creating bite-size modules in your projects
Improve your ID process by creating bite-size modules in your projects
Based on what you learned in this session, how can you improve your ID process by implementing bite-size modules in your projects?
I think you got a great start here today by learning about the benefits as well as the process. So you started the LEARN part. Your next step is to go and PRACTICE this in your own projects. Everyone has their own way of doing things, and I get that. I have given you an introduction and guidelines today, but I’m sure as you bring them into your projects, you will IMPROVE them according to your own process. If you continue to work with bite-sized modules in your ID process, you will be SUCCESSFUL in streamlining your implementation process.
My gift to you
Microlearning: Small Bites, Big Impact
Bite-Sized Learning – several resources in this area
17 Awesome Resources on Micro-Learning
Brief is Beautiful: Bite-Size Content and the New E-Learning
The Age of Bite-sized Learning – What it is and why it works
7 Things we learned from Deloitte’s “Meet the Modern Learner”
My gift to you
Free Prototyping ToolsInvision – Prototypes, Feedback, Collaboration, Workflow, User Testing, Boards
POP – Prototyping on Paper
Authoring Tools (not free)Articulate Storyline 2
Adobe Captivate 9
7 Top Authoring Tools – Learning Solutions Magazine
Questions & Answers
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Twitter: @LMWConsulting
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-whalen-97245122