Thank you

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This is it! Tonight is my last official post for EME6414, Summer 2023. What to write about? If you had asked me a few hours earlier, my honest answer would have been "no idea". It's not I don't have anything on my mind (I may have too much actually), but I was not sure how to approach this last post. So, I've decided I'll do just as usual and draw a few personal reflections. To help me tackle this last challenge, I went back to Canvas and get an overview of our Modules Main Page. Gosh, what a journey it has been! The first image that comes to my mind is the iceberg metaphor. You know, this impression that for years, you had been exploring the World Wide Web with confidence, as if you were in your own neighborhood, with your own habits, hanging out with the same people, getting what you were looking for, not less, not more. And one day, you realize that you were just scratching the surface and that a whole world was lying underneath, inviting you to a whole new...
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What will you microlearn today?

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I got interested in microlearning as soon as I heard of it. As a lifelong adult busy and impatient learner, this format meets maybe all of my expectations by providing me with concise information, chunked, organized, and displayed using various formats and available at the moment of need from any possible digital technology.

We all might use microlearning strategies to learn and grow, sometimes unconsciously. Whether traveling from one location to the next in Paris metro by following colored lines in the street or learning how to cook red velvet cookies by watching a 5-minute Youtube video, we learn new things, find solutions, and gain skills.

In addition to these benefits, Web 2.0 adds a significant special value to microlearning by allowing people to interact through an Instagram informative post, like and reshare Youtube videos, or comment on an annotated academic paper to bring their own perspective to the debate.

For our Knowledge Sharing and Tracking Assignment, I chose to elaborate a bit more on this topic and created a microlearning platform on microlearning using Padlet as a curation tool (check below or click on the link). In this Padlet, you'll find elements of reflections and knowledge about:

- what is microlearning and what isn't,
- the value of using microlearning in various settings,
- some examples (good and not-so-good, you'll decide!) of microlearning,
- recommendations to design effective microlearning materials.

I compiled various formats suitable for microlearning purposes, but these examples are from being exhaustive.
Take a look at one or more of these resources, Padlet makes learning available when you want and where you want!

Don't hesitate to share your thoughts on microlearning as a learning strategy. Do you think Padlet is useful and relevant to convey microlearning? If so, how can it help to support our personal and professional development? What topic would you like to microlearn about?


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