Microlearning is an instructional approach that delivers content and practice in short, focused units — typically targeting a single skill, concept, or task — rather than in extended course sessions.
Why it matters#
Learners have limited attention and limited time. A module that covers six concepts in forty minutes will be retained less well than six modules that cover one concept each in five minutes. Microlearning matches the granularity of instruction to the granularity of how memory works: focused, brief exposure followed by retrieval and spacing.