This session looks at the principles supporting microlearning best practice, like visual, dynamic, and interactive content to make it engaging.
Learners don’t always want to sit through a formal training course, or, more usually, simply don’t have the time. Microlearning is a great way to deliver just what people need, when they need it, to maximize effectiveness. But, as a learning professional, how do you create it?
This session looks at the principles supporting microlearning best practice, like visual, dynamic, and interactive content to make it engaging, taking into account the wide range of devices that people use to access microlearning, including traditional laptops, but also tablets and mobile. Then explore practical techniques to create microlearning content quickly and easily using PowerPoint. You’ll be amazed at the way you can use this standard tool to deliver visual content, with animation, and high impact media, like audio, voice-over, video, screen recording. And, then ways to export it to video or HTML5 for easy distribution, in isolation, or through your LMS. All of which will make your microlearning an effective tool that your learners will be delighted with.
The session is really practical and there will be lots of real-time demonstrations in PowerPoint, showing you how to actually use the tool and what techniques and functions will help you quickly create microlearning content that’s effective.
And we’ll look at different resources for no charge, royalty-free, and for commercial use, images, icons, audio, and video that can all be incorporated into PowerPoint (or indeed any other tool) to create rich multimedia content.
The intent is that everyone should be able to leave the session immediately being able to do something useful, but as a lot will be covered, there will also be how-to guides and video tutorials to help you later when you need to use a particular technique.
As a Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) with years of experience working with associations, I am currently the Executive Director of the Institute for Performance and Learning or I4PL. Our purpose is to elevate the performance of the Canadian workforce.
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