02/07/2018

Microlearning: Responding to New Learning Styles

According to the OSCPAs, the bite-sized learning trend could be a hugely important one for us all

Education is an endlessly disrupted technology: In a matter of decades it’s gone from rote memorization to interaction, physical classrooms to MOOCs, four-year programs to just-in-time training. So microlearning—delivering education in small bursts, often via video—is just the latest shift in an ever-shifting landscape. Attention spans are shrinking, mobile use is expanding, and the need to update skills is constant as tools and technology upgrade more often.

Microlearning makes a lot of sense for many associations. But when the Ohio Society of CPAs began to pursue its own microlearning program, it ran into a force that’s less quick to adapt: regulation.

Scott D. Wiley, FASAE, CAE, president and CEO of OSCPA, wanted to ensure that the short videos it was delivering through its Quick Byte series would be accepted for continuing-education credits. But in 2014, when the association began exploring microlearning, accountancy boards only accepted learning delivered in increments of an hour or more.

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