Recently, a nonprofit professional said to me, “I don’t have time to learn anything new because I have too much work to do.” Indeed, she had a calendar full of meetings, an endless to-do list, and an inbox that was anything but zeroed out. Yet, we know that learning continuously in a complex world is critical because otherwise, our skills are quickly outdated.

Enter micro-learning, resources that can be quickly read, viewed, or consumed and take only ten minutes or less. Micro-learning online courses consist of a video, an info-graphic or list of tips, and a set of instructional or assessment questions that help us think differently about the topic and find something bite size to apply immediately. Micro-learning is often self-directed, so the first important step is figuring out what you need to learn.

All of this modes work together to create a distributed learning ecosystem at work. That’s the future.

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