Good practice guidance

To optimize engagement here are some general design guidelines to bear in mind when creating microlearning:

• Maximise user engagement by using accessible language, ensuring learning pathways are clear and that participants can see their progress clearly.
• Make the content bitesize and easily consumable and clearly identify durations of learning assets. Ensure that bitesize assets are searchable and easily surfaced.
• Increase interactivity by including practice activities, tasks and self-assessments to apply learning to their personal experience.
• Optimize the peer learning experience using calls to action to get participants to share experiences with peers via the discussion
• Keep videos short and no more than 5 mins. Videos that exceed 2 mins get less engagement so when a longer video might be necessary consider whether it could be broken down into smaller videos and perhaps even broken up with knowledge check questions or student interactivity.
• Use a consistent format and structure for your microteach content so that students know what to expect.
• Within LearnPress there are a variety of H5P interactions to make the learning experience more engaging. Choose a variety of interactions to keep sudents engaged whilst ensuring that interactions are appropriate to your learning objectives and whether you are presenting information or engaging students in an activity to embed the learning. You can view examples and applications of the H5P interactions we have available here.

Always build with mobile in mind to increase accessibility. Luckily we have created this website with mobile in mind and so microlearning will be accessible to learners via their mobiles. But do test your microteach on your mobile device to ensure that image sizes and interactions appear correctly on mobile and provide a good user experience.