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There is great power in social polling, where learners
can give their opinion or rate something, like a video, and
then see what everyone else thinks.
This enables learners to explore the gray spaces rather
than the strict black and white or right and wrong spaces
E-Learning has often limited itself to in the past.

4. Micro learning
In a world that is perennially in haste, micro learning is
the trend that is catching up the fastest. This E-Learning
trend involves mini bytes of learning content made
available to the learner or user to incorporate in his daily
busy schedule without much difficulty.
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Micro learning utilizes 5-10 minute videos, single page
documents, focused articles, specific, small chunks of data or
lessons and other such innovative and concise training resources
that doesn’t burden the learner with too much cognitive reading.
It can be accessed by users via mobile and other
devices as bits of light reading providing a treasure trove
of information, making it extremely popular, especially in
the corporate sector.
Micro learning provides a structure to deliver learning content
in a way that that fits with what we know about how people learn-
short, focused, regular challenges that stretch and, perhaps,
reward us. It’s currently a huge success in the United States
Education Sector and gradually gaining worldwide popularity.
You’ve seen it in learning apps, such as Duolingo, and
it’s a model that grows with the learner.
In 2017 and beyond you’ll see less discussion on
“resources not courses”, and more focus on approaches
that use micro learning to personalize and structure
content in digestible sizes.

1. Hung, 2012, p. 8.