Designing Microlearning
Learn to Create Effective Microlearning
Microlearning is an essential tool that talent development professionals can use to fully engage their learners and tackle organizational performance needs. How do you know if the microlearning approach is successful? And what works?
In Designing Microlearning, the newest volume in ATD’s What Works in Talent Development series, experts Carla Torgerson and Sue Iannone answer these and other questions including:
• Why choose microlearning for your learners and organization?
• How do you determine your approach and then execute the implementation?
• How do you demonstrate success?
• Where do you go once you’ve started?
This guide for practitioners covers the four main uses for microlearning: preparation before a learning event, follow-up to support a learning event, stand-alone training, and performance support. It introduces MILE, the MIcroLEarning Design model, which outlines the details of creating a microlearning resource or program. Discover how to identify performance objectives; determine program technology and structure; create or select resources; promote what you designed; and monitor, modify, and evaluate it.
Included are case studies, tips, and resources, as well as more than 20 job aids, checklists, and worksheets. Samples consist of:
• an assessment of your organization’s readiness and compatibility for microlearning
• a worksheet to guide the design of your microlearning
• a tool for aligning your microlearning measurement and evaluation efforts
• a communication plan for sharing key information with learners, managers, and stakeholders.
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Full ProfileCarla Torgerson has more than 15 years of experience as an instructional designer and instructional strategist. Always interested in the latest learning trends, she has authored numerous blogs and articles on a variety of topics, including eLearning, mobile learning, and microlearning. She also developed MILE, the MIcroLEarning Design Model© and is the author of The Microlearning Guide to Microlearning and Designing Microlearning (with Sue Iannone).
Carla has consulted with numerous Fortune 500 clients including McDonald’s, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, Adobe, Express, Kellogg’s, University of Phoenix, Fidelity, Cargill, Medtronic, Merck, and Best Western. She has designed solutions ranging from $15,000 to more than $2 million.
Carla has a Master of Education (MEd) focused on technology-based education. She also has a Master of Business Administration (MBA), which helps her to see training through a business lens. She loves to travel and explore the country with her awesome husband, Tom, and their very curious son, John.
Connect with Carla on LinkedIn for insights and announcements:
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Sue Iannone, CPTD, has 25 years of learning-leadership experience in the commercial pharmaceutical and biotech space. Since 2016 she has been the Vice President and a partner of Bull City Blue, an end-to-end learning agency created to address the needs of training and talent development organizations within the life science industry.
Under Sue’s leadership, Bull City Blue has served a multitude of organizations to solve their complex learning and performance problems of local and global scale. Sue has helped learning leaders build strategic business plans for training teams, develop product launch learning processes and tools, create learning solutions for sales meetings, overhaul new hire learning pathways, and create training to meet countless other business needs. Sue has worked with several Fortune 500 organizations in the life sciences including AbbVie, Biogen, Philips, Sanofi, Merck, and Celgene.
Sue’s deep understanding of the life sciences training space informs the articles and workshops she’s crafted for both national entities such as ATD and The eLearning Guild, as well as industry-specific organizations like LTEN. Always interested in helping others succeed, Sue mentors life science learning leaders who are tackling challenging workplace problems and coaches aspiring learning leaders to identify knowledge, skills, and experiences to strengthen their career path.
Connect with Sue on LinkedIn for insights and announcements. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sueiannone/
