What is the difference between micro-courses and traditional courses

Micro-courses, common application scenarios is the use of fragmented time for learning, such as: morning meeting, evening meeting of the margins of time, visit the customer waiting time, time to take the bus and subway, there is a saying: "every time you go to the toilet to be able to grow a little bit," visible micro-courses is the application of a small fragment of time to complete the course format The format of the course will be diversified: information, real people, animation, interaction, games and so on. In short, we should be able to use the fragmented learning time to achieve the learning purpose. As borrowed from the mobile Internet, mobile APP application training and learning forms will show more innovation and interactive forms in the future.

How long is a microcourse? According to the application of the scene we can also brainstorm the answer: squatting a restroom for about 15 minutes feet are numb ~ so 15 minutes or so, or even shorter, 5 minutes, 10 minutes is best, if more than 30 minutes, it truly can not be associated with microclasses on what. So at present we can see the mainstream micro-course level on the market is divided into 3 minutes or less, 3 ~ 5 minutes, 5 ~ 10 minutes for a level, 15 ~ 30 minutes can be used as a small topic for learning. Each sub-course is like an episode of a sitcom, independent of a separate plot, integrated and logical system.

How can we ensure that learners get something out of 15 minutes, or even 5 minutes? In other words: what is the difference between a micro-course and a traditional course?

Overall, compared to traditional courses, micro-courses are different in the following ways:

One, the knowledge points combined with the practical operation of the course research and development:

Traditional courses to chapters, subsections as a unit, containing multiple knowledge points, and each knowledge point from the understanding of the application of the teaching of the R & D, and the development of micro-course R & D to more knowledge points + the practical application of the way to carry out the course! R & D: such as: time management in the text box work method for a knowledge point, text box + OUTLOOK email application for micro-course script development, simulated a small Li received 20 emails at work for classification and organization of the case study course "how to go to work in 5 minutes to deal with the mail at hand quickly".

So the micro-courses pay more attention to the customer experience is also on the battlefield, due to the micro-course teaching time is limited, to speak well, the first thing to do is to have to focus on the teaching objectives of the course, this step is the prerequisite for the success of the development of micro-courses. When it comes to focusing on teaching objectives, it's not an easy thing to do.

Second, in the form of a short film course development

Since the teaching time is limited, there must be a good way to present the explanation to ensure that in the limited time to speak clearly. A good presentation of the set, is the technique. Therefore, the author then draws on film and television literature movie scripts to set up the idea of research and development of a unique micro-course development ideas, combined with the traditional course development routines (opening, introduction, knowledge, practice, conclusion) for the integration of the response to the form of micro-course without, time, crowd, the use of different script ideas. The simplest operation is to draw the story timeline in the script compilation.

Three, heavy feedback, the application of modern technology for course evaluation

The more broken the class, everywhere is the class, how to do a good job of course evaluation will become a great challenge for training managers, how to combine the platform for course evaluation will become the future of Koch's four-level assessment of the challenges after the application of cell phone platforms to conduct behavioral analysis will be able to become the new support and trajectory of learning management, the majority of the current technology to support to the learning - measurement. Support to learning - with the test, the future technology will also realize the learning - test - assessment - behavioral analysis - trajectory management - knowledge dissemination - performance verification model.

Four, looking for logic in the scattered micro-courses

Single micro-courses due to the time period is actually light logic, this is easier to understand. The role of logic had a lot of teachers have played the analogy, is strung up knowledge points of the beads, when many knowledge points appear to help learners to remember, micro-courses only one knowledge point, so the string of beads on the line is not needed. The point with the course developers professionalism will change, micro-courses will be slowly combined with the action of learning, learning at work in the logic of the line to form a real sense of the learning map (most of the existing training management system in the learning map is a rip-off) This will also be the future of training management encountered the biggest challenge.