The document discusses emerging trends in learning including micro learning, MOOCs, learning paths, and content curation vs creation. Micro learning refers to learning in small units or topics over short periods of time. Learning paths allow learners more control over their learning journey by choosing their own route. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are large online courses available to anyone without cost. These trends are changing how learning happens to keep up with the shortening attention spans of learners and rapidly changing skills needs.

1. Learning Trends
• Micro Learning
• MOOCs
• Learning Paths
• Content Creation v. Curation

2. “Education is now outpacing
the work world in leading
informal learning, and gains in
innovation with learning.”
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3.  What could the future look like?
 What tools are needed?
 How do we keep momentum?
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Activity

4. Micro Learning
 Microlearning deals with relatively small learning units
and short-term learning activities. Generally, the term
"microlearning" refers to micro-perspectives in the
context of learning, education and training.

5. Dimension of Micro Learning
 Time: relatively short effort, operating expense, degree of time
consumption, measurable time, subjective time, etc.
 Content: small or very small units, narrow topics, rather simple
issues, etc.
 Curriculum: small part of curricular setting, parts of modules,
elements of informal learning, etc.
 Form: fragments, facets, episodes, "knowledge nuggets", skill
elements, etc.
 Process: separate, concomitant or actual, situated or integrated
activities, iterative method, attention management, awareness
(getting into or being in a process), etc.
 Mediality: print media, electronic media, mono-media vs. multi-
media, (inter-)mediated forms, etc.
 Learning type: repetitive, activist, reflective, pragmatist,
conceptionalist, constructivist, connectivist, behaviorist;
also:action learning, classroom learning, corporate learning, etc.

6. Trending
 Because old school training is expensive, time-
consuming, and simply can’t be produced fast enough to
react to a constantly changing work environment.
 By 2025, Millennials alone will make up that 75 percent
of the workforce. The average attention span of the
Millennial generation is 90 seconds.
 Deloitte recently estimated digital skills have a half-life
of just 2.5 years for any given role. And because despite
technology and digital products rapidly proliferating and
evolving, these developments are only able to improve
performance with the right training.

7. Learning Paths
 Learning pathway is described as the chosen route,
taken by a learner through a range of (commonly) e-
learning activities, which allows them to build
knowledge progressively. With learning pathways, the
control of choice moves away from the tutor to the
learner.

8. Learning Paths
 From episodic to continuous learning
 From assigning to enticing with content
 From working at one scale to working up and down the
scale
 From grades to continuous feedback mechanisms

9. MOOCs
 MOOCs (Massive Online Open Course) is a course of
study made available over the Internet without charge
to a very large number of people.
"MOOC poster mathplourde" by Mathieu Plourde {(Mathplourde on Flickr)

10. MOOCs
 According to the New York Times, 2012 was the year of
the MOOC – a massive open online course.
 MOOC’s have risen to remarkable levels of popularity
over the past few years with offerings from such high-
ranking colleges and universities as MIT, Harvard, Yale,
Duke, and more.

11. Trending
 Mini MOOCs
 Discussion Forums
 Team-based course design
 Student Engagement and Persistence
 The User Experience
 Credentialing

12. Appendix
Micro Learning
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlearning
 http://elearningindustry.com/awesome-resources-on-micro-learning
 http://elearningindustry.com/why-microlearning-is-huge
 http://www.microlearning.org/
 http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1578/the-microlearning-trend-
accommodating-cultural-and-cognitive-shifts
Learning Paths
 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-
8#q=what+is+learning+paths&spell=1
 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-
8#q=what+are+learning+paths
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_pathway
 http://edglossary.org/learning-pathway/
 https://www.nmefoundation.org/getmedia/76ca2f20-4141-42a1-880f-0bab1bcc21bc/nessc-
briefing-personalized-learning-pathways

13. Appendix
MOOCs
 https://www.edx.org/blog/impacts-moocs-higher-
education
 http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/the-future-of-moocs/
 https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-
beta/future-moocs