Delivering Microlearning for Sustained Learning Effectiveness

How to Determine What Microlearning is Effective and What’s Not There is abundant evidence that breaking up longer learning modules and delivering them as smaller units over time is an effective learning strategy. But there is more to effective microlearning than creating and distributing small learning nuggets. When we designed Intela as a second-generation microlearning …

Using Confidence-based Knowledge Checks to Sustain Learning

Measuring learning immediately following a learning experience (workshops, eLearning, etc.) is standard practice -- but it’s not sufficient. Too often, we perform this immediate measurement, assume that we have achieved our learning goals, and move on. But, for learning to be meaningful it must be persistent over time – it must be sustained. To check …

Which Works Better: Learning Objectives or Pre-Quizzes?

As readers of this column, and anyone who has ever attended my one of my workshops knows, I am a limited fan of learning objectives (LOs). I do think they are useful, and even essential, for two purposes: Structuring content and ensuring all important content is covered when creating learning materials.Creating fair, valid, and reliable …

The Problem with Rating Scales

What’s wrong with rating scales? A lot. They are ubiquitous in learning and assessment, appearing primarily in two types of evaluations: Level One “smile sheets”Skills evaluations The same criticisms apply to both usages, though the proposed solutions are different. In Level One evaluations rating scales are primarily used as responses to statements about a learning …