Important Digital Learning Elements

 A combination of videos, bite-sized learning units, interactivity and gamification are four important elements in digital learning! 

 Videos, bite-sized learning units, interactivity and gamification 

Founded on the newest insights and research within learning innovation, it’s clear that bite-sized learning units, that offers short video instructions and have elements of interactivity, is a strong guarantee for the highest possible learning effect for multiple types of learners – academic as well as non-academic. 

In addition, as a producer of learning content, the bite-sized educational approach with short videos, makes it extremely easy and fast to create and edit content.

Finally, a video combined with engaging gamification elements can make it even fun to learn faster and increase impact even further! As a learning professional, you will most likely be dealing with busy time-pressurized learners who are trying to manage their business affairs while taking a course and the bite-sized approach makes it more attractive for your learners to learn. 

Micro-learning

In the eLearning and instructional design realm, Micro-learning refers to an educational approach that offers bite-sized, small learning units with just the necessary amount of info to help learners achieve a goal.

According to the Journal of Applied Psychology, learning in bite-sized pieces makes the transfer of learning from classroom to the desk 17% more efficient. Because each chunk of learning content addresses only 1 or 2 learning objectives. Traditional courses yield 4 to 5 learned take-aways.  

Video is an essential learning technology 

For decades videos have proven to increase learning and appeal to a diverse group of learners. Today we have very good evidence for how to create a video to improve learning. Maybe the biggest empirical study to date with data from 6.9 million video watching, shows that less than 6 minutes is the optimal length for instructional videos.

At 5 minutes the video watching begins decreasing. Another newer study showed that the value of video for learning effectiveness was contingent upon the provision of interactivity.

Students in the eLearning environment that provided interactive video achieved significantly better learning performance and higher level of learning satisfaction than in other settings. 

All in all, video is an essential learning technology; Listening and watching instead of reading, videos support different learning styles and videos designed with quality and in the right way have a higher success rate.