LifterLMS

MAY 4, 2025

She shared how to build a community. Raquel leveraged her experience in organizing a variety of events, including school functions, weddings, WordCamps, and tech community meetups, to assemble a streamlined and dedicated team that made PressConf happen in Tempe, Arizona. 2025 WordPress LMS Buyer’s Guide Exclusive Download !

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LearnDash

JUNE 18, 2020

Turn learning into a habit, and your learners will be with you for life. Many of us are used to thinking of learning as something that happens once. We take a course, we read a book, we attend a seminar, and at the end of it, we’ve learned something! But the reality of learning is that it rarely happens this way.

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Cognitive Micro-Learning Learning Lecture 285

KnowledgeOne

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the world of training, the prefix “micro,” for “very small,” is all the rage. You may have heard of micro modules, micro-credentials or microdiplomas. Are you familiar with the concept of micro-credentials? To find out more: Microlearning 101 4 reasons to opt for micro-learning 2.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Also, it’s a win-win that lets your students save money while they continue to learn. I love to put this to work for me when I’m building user communities of students. Create micro-content for the course at check-out. Micro-content is based on a learning approach that breaks coursework into 15-minute intervals.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Micro-content offers new possibilities for learner engagement. We’ve discussed ways that micro learning can help educators shift their thinking about online content delivery. Micro content can be marketed in a variety of ways. Micro content also allows you to address multiple niche audiences.

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Benefits Micro-Learning Course Lesson 217

LearnDash

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We’ve written a lot about micro learning and related ideas, but we haven’t talked much about the opposite: macro learning, and the big-picture thinking it entails. Macro learning can encompass a learning theory. Combined, these techniques form a new learning theory around language learning.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 2, 2019

The year sure went by quickly, did e-learning evolve at the same pace? At the beginning of every year I take a moment to make three predictions in the e-learning industry. Either way, it’s fun to watch the evolution of e-learning! Prediction #1: Growth in Micro-Learning Delivery & Reporting.

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LearnDash

APRIL 2, 2020

Micro-subscription. A micro-subscription is one that has a time limit—one of 2–6 months. When their micro-subscription runs out, they’re taking off the course. Unlike a micro-subscription, a payment plan assumes ongoing access to the course once the learner finishes the payment schedule. Language learning.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

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LearnDash

JANUARY 28, 2021

Every now and then, I hear people claim that online learning is a way to generate “passive income.” Organize small groups to build community. I’ve joined several online classes where the most exciting aspect was the chance to connect with others who were learning the same skill as me. Create special limited-run micro courses.

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CourseArc

MARCH 9, 2023

Kathryn, you are an educational researcher and practitioner focusing on online and digital learning. My primary focus is online and digital learning, but in the midst of all of my projects, which varied in focus, an underlying theme was educator burnout, stress, and overwhelm. How did you bridge the gap to start Wellness for Educators?

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Infopro Learning

MARCH 11, 2021

We have been witnessing change like never before, where Learning is crucial for thriving in these challenging times. For the workforce, it is the ability to learn that continues to be the driving force behind adapting to the ‘new normal’. Learning is a journey, where experiences and interactions contribute to overall performance.

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Arlo Training & Events Software

MAY 11, 2022

Since the onset of COVID in early 2020, we have been witnessing rapid changes in the way learners want to learn. ?And Online, self-paced learning seemed like the perfect solution in a rapidly changing training industry and we saw a mass roll-out of new learning tech companies (Go1, Thinkific etc). Micro learning.

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LearnDash

MARCH 4, 2021

Online education—especially mobile education—has become so prevalent that many of us probably engage with it several times a day without ever thinking about it as e-learning at all. In thinking about my education experiences over the past year, I realized that I use three different apps for online learning almost every single day.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 11, 2018

When most people think about starting an online course business they think about creating elaborate courses with gamification elements, automation, communities and so forth. Adding a forum or community is not a priority with JIT training. First, familiarize yourself with micro-content and mobile delivery methods. Really short.

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Diversity Training Micro-Learning Wiki Case Study 187

Docebo

JUNE 29, 2022

Beyond celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community at Docebo, Pride is also about representation and education. Prior to Pride being recognized internationally as a celebration for the LGBTQIA+ community, Pride was a riot and a protest. As a learning suite, education and learning are foundational to what makes us exactly who we are.

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Web Courseworks

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Learning today happens everywhere, not just in the classroom. Digital badges are a type of micro-credential , meaning that they are smaller in scope than traditional credentialing systems such as degrees and certifications. Is Your Organization Ready? Is my badging program needed? Will the badges be valued?

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Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Gamification is revolutionizing the field of learning and development. Gamification Strategies for Instructional Designers and Trainers skills seminar I led at the recent ASTD Chicagoland Chapter meeting at the DePaul University School for New Learning on September 18 th. That was the main thrust of the Game On!

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Practice: Learners should do what they’re learning. Lessons are more powerful—and are remembered more easily and for longer—when learners have time to put what they learned to practice. People don’t learn by being told a lot of information. In some courses, learners can practice directly with the subject.

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LearnDash

APRIL 9, 2018

How to design your course to build learning habits. Accordingly, designing a course that helps learners build learning habits could have a huge impact on engagement and completion rates. But a micro-lesson , or even something as small as logging into a the LMS every day can help learners stay engaged. Help them create a streak.

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 14, 2013

High performing individuals, teams and organisations focus on exploiting development opportunities in the workplace because that’s where most of the learning happens. Typically, adding learning involves integrating structured away-from-work learning (courses, classes, and eLearning modules) with learning activities within the workflow.

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Metrics Social Networks Performance Support Gartner 270

ID Reflections

JUNE 26, 2014

I love this definition of MOOCs by Ignatia Inge deWaard in her e-book, MOOC Yourself: “A MOOC is a non-defined pedagogical format to organize learning /teaching/training on a specific topic in an informal, online, and collaborative way.” However, in either case they will learn in isolation, as individuals.

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Infopro Learning

MAY 12, 2025

The energy industry is leading the change as governments, businesses, and local communities work to remove carbon from their energy systems. Project management, communication, adaptability, and other soft skills will be among the most important for employees in engineering, policy, and community engagement.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It means they learn the course material, but it also means they remember the course material for months—if not years—after finishing. Most learners know that cramming is bad for learning , and few walk into a course expecting to spend their last few days desperately pulling all-nighters in preparation for a big test.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Your first course is a learning experience for you, too, so know what you want to learn from it. Build your community before you build your course. A common misimpression about online learning is that you have to have a course ready to launch before you can have a website, a blog, or a real community. Start small.

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Learnnovators

MAY 24, 2015

Having taken the world of higher education by storm (though not everyone will agree), MOOCs are all set to disrupt/re-invent workplace learning. Just as the advent of e-learning created a shift in training paradigms a couple of decades back, MOOCs are set to create another shift today. MOOCs in Performance Support.

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dVinci Interactive

JULY 5, 2016

In the information technology industry, micro-credentialing is helping employers and professionals keep pace with rapid change. At IBM, David Leaser promotes innovative way to recognize skills and achievements within the IBM community of professionals, employees, channel partners and customers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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Spark Your Interest

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, you would not get many customers taking a full day course to learn how to put together an IKEA table. Including creating expert communities. You can also enhance your self-help with micro-videos and walk-throughs. And later on, you can use your help screenshots and micro-videos in your product tutorials.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2014

In my last post, I took a macro-view of the changing landscape of work and learning. In this post, I am trying to dig a little deeper and take a micro-view to see how these changes impact us as individuals and as a part of L&D. We are feeling the impact in all spheres of our lives -- professional, personal and private.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Learning information is mostly a process of helping learners move information from short term to long term memory. By testing information shortly after it is learned, and then repeating it throughout a course, learners are better able to store important information in their long-term memory. Learning can be similar.

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Allison Rossett

MARCH 13, 2013

I appreciate Sarah’s enthusiasm for learning, experience, community and technology. That’s why I invited her to tell us what happened when she signed up for a MOOC on the subject of E-learning and Digital Culture. And I conceived a Micro-MOOC™ concept, with implications for employee selection and onboarding.

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LearnDash

APRIL 11, 2019

If you have a community in place then the students might continue learning from one another there, but not all courses have (or need) a community. Sending them mini-quizzes that are only one or two questions, giving them helpful tips relating to the content, infographics, and micro-videos (one to two minutes in length).

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In thinking about your own top selling points, you should first take time to learn about your audience so that your message will resonate with them. They aren’t committed to specific class times, and in many cases, the learning goals are more open-ended. Micro content so that learners can fit in shorter, more frequent study sessions.

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LearnDash

JUNE 10, 2021

Engagement can come through quizzes, community, or gamification (among other things), but that element of interactivity is essential for learners to come back for more content. This is also known as “ synchronous ” vs. “ asynchronous ” learning.) Choosing the right e-learning platform.

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LearnDash

MAY 18, 2018

Recently I presented to the iThemes Training community about online courses, and some tactics you can use to create a successful online course. If I have learned one thing since LearnDash first started it is that everyone defines their learning program objectives and goals differently.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Continuous learning has obvious advantages for online instructors. Adult learners tend to approach courses with one of two mindsets: either the program they’re signing up for is a once-and-done class, much like a seminar or a college-level credit course, or it’s part of an ongoing learning process. Keep lessons bite-sized.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

I thought I''d do the same from an L&D and workplace learning perspective. The former identifies shifts in specific areas that will and already are having a far-reaching impact on the way we work, learn, communicate, and engage with the environment and society. And that future is rapidly becoming our present.

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