http://www.microlearning.org/ Making learning easy, step by step! en-us Nucleus CMS v3.23 © Weblog E-Learning Microlearning http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.microlearning.org/nucleus/nucleus2.gif http://www.microlearning.org/ http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=212 Gernot Zimmermann interviews Prof. Peter A. Bruck (CEO of Research Studios Austria FG) for Standort, the newsletter of the Tiroler Zukunftsstiftung:

(Excerpt)

„KnowledgePulse“ heißt ein aktuelles Produkt der Research Studios Austria. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Lösung im Bereich MicroLearning. Was genau ist MicroLearning?

MicroLearning ist die Antwort darauf, dass Menschen in der Informationsgesellschaft immer mehr lernen müssen und dafür immer weniger Zeit haben. Das ist ein grundlegendes Problem, es wird immer ärger, und vor allem in den wissensintensiven Ausführungsberufen leiden wir darunter besonders. Die Lösung ist ein Lernen in kleinen Schritten. Wir haben nicht die Zeit für große Lernlösungen und lange Seminare. Aber kleine Lernschritte kann jeder schaffen, auch zwischendurch beim Aktivitätenwechsel. Und viele Schritte bringen einen auch auf den Weg zum Lernerfolg.

„KnowledgePulse“ soll auch als App für iPhone und Apple Handys zur Verfügung stehen. Wie läuft da die Implementierung?

Unser Ziel ist es, das iPhone auch als Lerngerät nutzbar zu machen. iPhone-User haben ein ganz intimes Verhältnis zu dem Gerät. Damit eignet es sich zu mehr als nur zum Surfen und Telefonieren, also sehr zum Wissenserwerb. Das wollen wir nützen. Alle Smartphones werden immer wichtiger, und das iPhone ist hier auch für uns ein Bahnbrecher.

Welche Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von MicroLearning bieten sich an?

Wir vergessen zu viel. Vieles, was wir wissen sollten, kennen wir nur vom Drüberschauen, Gehörthaben, Anklicken. Kennen heißt aber nicht Können. Das heißt: Früher sprach man von Halbbildung; ich spreche von „Seichtbildung“, das ist jene Bildung, die man sich z.B. durchs Internet oder durch den Medienkonsum aneignet. Man hat einen Eindruck, aber nichts Präzises. Und das genügt nicht, wenn man Verantwortung trägt, einen Job machen soll, eine Aufgabe gut erfüllen muss. Da muss man Informationen genau wissen und dieses Wissen auch abrufen können. Das schafft MicroLearning mit dem KnowledgePulse. Es ist die optimale Ergänzung zu Präsenztrainings schlechthin. Das Wissen, das in Veranstaltungen vermittelt wird, geht ja schon nach zwei Tagen wieder vollkommen verloren, außer man wiederholt es. Hier setzt das MicroLearning an. Die Hirnforschung bestätigt, dass durch die Wiederholungsmethode des KnowledgePulses das Wissen vom Kurzzeit- in das Langzeitgedächtnis übergeht. Das Gelernte wird damit abrufbar.

The entire interview is available as a PDF: Standort interview with Prof. Bruck (German)
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MicroLearning is an innovative approach which integrates learning into the daily work-flow, allows users to take lessons step by step and makes continuous learning easy.

Workshop participants will be introduced to the MicroLearning approach, the new pedagogy of splitting large amounts of learning material into microcontent, and the technological platform of the KnowledgePulse® as a way to enhance sustainable capacity building in organizations.

Who should attend?
Decision-makers and managers involved in eLearning projects, knowledge management professionals,
human resources managers, consultants, IT managers, leaders in the public sector and administration, as well as anyone responsible for the coordination or realization of training activities in organizations.

How will You and your organization benefit?
This two-day seminar will enable you to increase the efficiency of your training programs. You will learn how to get a better return on your training investments with employees, associated agencies and company partners. The course will provide practical advice on how to make learning easy and effective.

To book your MicroLearning Workshop, please contact:
Ms. Manuela Lechner
T: +43 662 834 602-600
F: +43 662 834 602-222
manuela.lechner@researchstudio.at ]]> 00 | Welcome! About This Site Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:16:34 +0100 Bruck http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=211 http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=209 MICROLEARNING2008 :: Microlearning & Capacity Building took place on June 25th-27th, 2008 in Innsbruck, Austria.

And it was a great conference indeed! Thanks to our speakers and to all of the participants who made it such a striking success.

Conference Proceedings:
Bruck, Peter A.; Lindner, Martin; (Editors):
Microlearning and Capacity Building. Proceedings of the 4th International Microlearning 2008 Conference

Here you can find the presentations:
Judy Breck - Presentation
Judy Breck - Educational Technology Magazine article
Ulf-Daniel Ehlers - Tom steps up the Ladder - Competence Development through E-Learning
Ulf-Daniel Ehlers - Keynote
Further presentations to follow.

Videos of presentations:
Judy Breck and Teemu Arina

Conference photos and an edited list of blogposts will follow in the coming days.
Please stay tuned, as we will permanently update this site in the next days and weeks to document all the ideas and people of the rapidly emerging micro-network.

(You can also have a look at speakers and presentations from our past conferences, Microlearning 2005, 2006, and Microlearning 2007.)

For further information, please view the blog-based Conference homepage.

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We are aware that you are actively involved in eLearning and the use of digital technologies to enhance skill levels and build human capacities in your organisation and country. We thus cordially invite you to take part in the international conference MICROLEARNING2008:

Microlearning & Capacity Building
June 25th to 27th, 2008, in Innsbruck/Austria

(Sponsored by Intel Education, organized in co-operation with University of
Innsbruck and the Learntec Fair)

Capacity Building is about empowering individuals, organisations, and societies to keep pace with the global Knowledge Society, notably through the use of internet-based and mobile ICT. Under the conditions of the global digital climate change, everyone needs to adapt: We see the emergence of new technology-driven practices, new patterns of attention, new aggregate states of knowledge beyond orality or literacy.

The exceptional blend of participants, as well as the relaxed, intimate atmosphere present opportunities to make new contacts and lead inspiring discussions which would otherwise not have have been possible. Participants come from all of Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Arab Region and feature the quite diverse backgrounds: IT architects and university graduates, eLearning practitioners and educators, knowledge managers and corporate trainers, large corporations and small start-ups,e.g.

For further information please check the preliminary program and register online.

We welcome your participation!

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Martina A. Roth Conference Co-Chair Director, Intel Education

Prof. Dr. Peter A.Bruck Conference Co-Chair General Manager, Research Studios Austria

PD Dr. Martin Lindner Program Chair

]]> 00 | Welcome! About This Site Fri, 30 May 2008 09:44:37 +0200 Bruck http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=207 http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=183 WIRED on "Snack Culture" in TV, print, pop, computer games ...
including dialectical twist by Steven Johnson.

great compendium. blend with Manovich's thoughts on "micromedia" and the "Microchunk It" discussion.

then think about consequences for knowledge & learning.
(and put them in a comment here in this blog ...)

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]]> 05 | Web 2.0 / Microcontent Sun, 4 Mar 2007 08:35:33 +0100 Martin Lindner http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=183 http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=182 here as an embedded slideshare-file, but also as ppt and audio.

(Stephen always was a brilliant thinker, but now the visual media design for the messages has definitely improved.)

(Did you notice that slideshare is dramatically changing Powerpoint to a microcontent-user experience?) ]]> 03 | Microknowledge Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:22:18 +0100 Martin Lindner http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=182 http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=181 Michael Schuster in the SystemOne journal, and here he is adding something on the Memex machine, microcontent and memes. ]]> 05 | Web 2.0 / Microcontent Fri, 9 Feb 2007 22:13:44 +0100 Martin Lindner http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=181 http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=180 David Weinberger’s book (May, 2007) and how we’re pulling ourselves together now that we’ve blown ourselves to bits." (#). and here is the technorati-tag-list for "small pieces loosely joined". ]]> 05 | Web 2.0 / Microcontent Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:05:42 +0100 Martin Lindner http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=180 http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=179
Ray Ozzie (Microsoft) on Live Clipboard in 2006, reminded via preoccupations-blog
]]> 05 | Web 2.0 / Microcontent Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:03:42 +0100 Martin Lindner http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=179 http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=177 Micromedia & e-Learning 2.0: Gaining the Big Picture

]]> 00 | Welcome! About This Site Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:57:41 +0100 Patricia Köll http://www.microlearning.org/index.php?itemid=177