Microlearning in corporate settings: practitioner perspectives

Abstract

Organisations are seeking to adopt training strategies that support quick, but effective, learning for Gen-Z and millennials. The recent pandemic triggered the need for a hybrid/remote workplace where employees' learning and development expectations are oriented more towards a need-based and short content-based learning. Though few organisations have initiated the process of micro-learning adoption as part of their learning and development practices, there are quite a number of roadblocks and challenges. In this perspective article, the authors have used their core experiences and learnings from the L&D units of multinational corporations to address key questions such as (1) How micro-learning can be adopted as a general practice in the corporate L&D settings? (2) What are the key success factors of such adoptions? (3) What is the future roadmap of micro content-based learning? The authors also suggested a few directions to pursue the goal of creating a microlearning environment in corporate settings.