September - 2016 - issue > CEO Insights
Micro Learning will be the Future of Learning in the Workplace
JC Sekar, Co-Founder & CEO, AcuiZen Technologies
Before we get into understanding what microlearning is, let us look at two of the most common challenges confronting the learning and development initiatives in an organization today: Attention & Retention.
Learner Attention
We know that human attention spans have been decreasing significantly over the last century. Distractions a century ago were perhaps from activities outside of the workplace such as books and plays while today's distractions come from the never ending stream of social media. Expecting a learner to be absorbing all the knowledge communicated in a class room, or for that matter an eLearning module, is just a false sense of optimism. All it takes is just one distraction to disconnect the learner from the trainer and there are no shortages of distractions today.
Knowledge Retention
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