Why Microlearning Drives Over 20% More Information Retention Than Long-Form Training

The world of enterprise learning now has yet another reason to be buzzing about microlearning. As if the potential to transform behaviors and organizations wasn’t intriguing enough, a new study out of Germany indicates that short content drives over 20% more information retention than long-form training. The excitement never stops, does it?

The reason microlearning leads to better information retention—and the irony—is that as a method, microlearning is basically unconcerned with information transfer. The kind of learning you did in school, where you learned things from a book and had to apply them towards a test, is not what microlearning was designed to achieve. But in the process of doing its day job—helping learners build successful behaviors—microlearning moonlights as a pretty good transmitter of information, too. Here’s the story.

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