What is adaptive microlearning?

Microlearning is more than offering your learners small chunks of content. The micro part is just one tiny piece of the story, but it sometimes steals the headlines. 

For microlearning to be effective in business, it must also adapt continuously to what individual employees know or don’t know.

It must work with human nature, not against it, to help people retain and apply knowledge. 

This type of microlearning uses the latest technology to fill employee knowledge gaps and target specific business challenges.

It’s called adaptive microlearning.  

Adaptive microlearning explained

Adaptive microlearning has its foundation in science.  It’s based on cognitive principles that show how small chunks of digestible learning, consumed continuously at intervals, help knowledge to ‘stick’.

The learning is 100% aligned to a pre-defined performance or business goal, uses engaging tools such as quizzes and gamification, and is accessed via which ever device people prefer.

At the design stage, the content is personalised for each individual, based on their particular circumstances such as their location, department, role, responsibilities and knowledge levels.  A baseline test is taken at the start, so that progress can be recorded. This personalisation ensures the learning is relevant.

Adaptive microlearning is smarter still, adding a further layer of intelligence that takes the learning up to another level. This provides front line managers with the critical information they need to mentor and coach their team members around specific areas and topics where they are struggling most to maximise their development time together.

And, get this, it can even adapt the learning to each individual employee in real time! So, if knowledge gaps are identified, additional content is delivered until those gaps are filled. It means each learner has their own learning journey and they only learn what they need to learn. The point is, they all get there in the end.

Because the learning is adaptive, it’s also continuous and up-to-date. And, to think, this continual improvement requires just three to five minutes of targeted learning each day.