What is microlearning?

Microlearnings are short educational videos focused on one theme. They aim to help you develop new skills, reflect on challenging situations in working life, and update your skills. Academy of Brain, who have 16 years and more than 500,000 learners’ experience in preparing and implementing content in 126 countries, are responsible for the content of the microlearning.

You can choose the learning content from the following themes:

• Modern leadership
• Productivity and Well-being
• Interaction
• Collaboration
• Growth mindset.
  
  

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Why microlearning?

There are several benefits of microlearning for the development of competence and working life skills; here are a few of them:

• The Academy of Brain microlearnings are educational videos that last about 5 minutes, i.e., an independent microstudy that focuses on one specific problem or learning result at a time. The learning answers practical questions.
  • The microlearning topics adapt to your development needs. You can choose a subject according to your interest or development goal.
  • You learn from experts and practical situations and develop your skills.
• Time management has been found to be the biggest challenge in learning at workplaces. Microlearning saves time!
  • Microlearnings easily fit into your busy schedule. According to your schedule, you can complete one study in about 5 minutes.
  • Microlearning suits quick needs, coffee breaks, team meetings, executive forums, etc.
• Short contents match the working memory capacity and the employee’s concentration ability.
  • 80% higher knowledge retention compared to traditional educational content has been found in microlearning studies.
• Microlearning produces a four times higher participation rate than traditional online learning.
• Microlearning responds to a current or planned need, for example, themes according to the annual activity plan and monthly or weekly highlights.
• Microlearnings are effective and rewarding. You can develop efficiency, increase self-confidence, and prepare for challenging situations.

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Where can I complete microlearnings?

Microlearnings can be integrated into your organization’s intranet or the Viva Learning service. There are 50 short videos with a maximum duration of 10 minutes.

You can search for content that suits you by navigating by theme or search for content with search terms. Once you have found the content you are looking for, you can start your studies immediately or return to it at a convenient time.

You can also evaluate the content and give feedback to the Academy of Brain Oy, responsible for content production. The content is available in Finnish and English.

What topics do microlearnings cover?

The microstudies cover the current topics of today’s hybrid work, which concern all knowledge workers working with distributed virtual teams:

• Modern leadership
  • Develop your ability to influence with psychological people skills, from interaction in hybrid work and agile working methods to coaching leadership.
• Productivity and Well-being
  • Develop your skills to promote meaningful matters in a way that increases well-being and promotes joint learning, from managing use of time and interruptions to managing your own expertise.
• Interaction
  • Develop your interaction skills for smooth collaboration, from building trust and listening skills to a discussion culture that respects and values diversity.
• Collaboration
  • Develop your collaboration skills to increase the sense of community and a good atmosphere among coworkers.
• Growth Mindset
  • Develop and learn to use automatic thinking and emotional reactions towards yourself, the world, and others in new ways.

Microlearning is a great way to develop your organization with minimal time investment and maximum impact!

Feel free to ask questions or book a demo!

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Do you want to hear more about micro-studies and how they help to develop working life skills?

Please contact Marko:

Marko Koskela
Chief Commercial Officer, Partner

050 518 4758
marko.koskela@soludigital.fi

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