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Fast Training Even Faster: Using AI for Microlearning Development

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Colorado Convention Center, Mile High Ballroom 3C

Explore and create: Exploratory Creation lab
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Learning Specialist
Compass: Partners in Learning
@BradyLicht
Brady Licht is a learning facilitator, consultant, and designer. Before working as a Learning Specialist with TIE/BHSSC, Brady Licht taught personalized, competency-based courses in a secondary FLEX environment. He participated in South Dakota's Rethinking Educational Models program, and he holds an undergraduate degree in English Education, a master's degree in Technology for Education and Training, and a certificate in User Experience Design. He works with districts, organizations, and government departments to create engaging, flexible learning experiences for a variety of audiences.

Session description

This hands-on session will equip participants with the skills needed to leverage AI tools to efficiently develop microlearning for a wide variety of uses. Following best practices with microlearning, professional developers, leadership and others can utilize AI for rapid content development, needs analysis, scenario-based learning and more.

Purpose & objective

This session addresses the challenge of rapidly developing bite-sized, personalized learning experiences. While microlearning is effective, manual creation is time-intensive. This presentation will introduce automated tools to accelerate microlearning design.

Participants will:
- Understand microlearning benefits and creation challenges
- Learn strategies to leverage automation for faster development
- Gain hands-on practice developing personalized microlearning
- Build skills to iterate microlearning using engagement data

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Outline

- Opening Activity - Microlearning on Microlearning and AI through 7taps - 5 minutes
- Collaborative Discussion - How have you used AI in your training/L&D strategy? - 5 minutes
- Interactive Demonstration - The Spiral Model of Instructional Design for Microlearning and AI's role within it - 10 minutes
- Guided Creation Time - Participants are guided step-by-step through the creation of one piece of microlearning, using Claude.AI (or another LLM/Generative AI Tool) to rapidly build components - 20+ minutes
- Closing Discussion - Ethical considerations & closing the human/AI loop - 5 minutes
- Q&A as time permits

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Supporting research

- Microlearning: Short and Sweet by Karl Kapp and Robyn Defelice
- Allen Interactions' 2021 Microlearning Mini-Lab
- Designing Microlearning by Carla Torgerson and Sue Iannone
- Microlearning in the Digital Age edited by Corbeil et al.
- AI for Educators by Matt Miller

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Session specifications

Topic:
Professional learning
Grade level:
Community college/university
Skill level:
Intermediate
Audience:
Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Principals/head teachers, Professional developers
Attendee devices:
Devices required
Attendee device specification:
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Windows, Android, iOS
Participant accounts, software and other materials:
Participants are encouraged to have an account with 7taps, but it is not required.
ISTE Standards:
For Education Leaders:
Visionary Planner
  • Evaluate progress on the strategic plan, make course corrections, measure impact and scale effective approaches for using technology to transform learning.
Empowering Leader
  • Empower educators to exercise professional agency, build teacher leadership skills and pursue personalized professional learning.