Research Article
Social Microlearning Motivates Learners to Pursue Higher-Level Cognitive Objectives
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-49625-2_24, author={Bernhard G\o{}schlberger}, title={Social Microlearning Motivates Learners to Pursue Higher-Level Cognitive Objectives}, proceedings={E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training. Third International Conference, eLEOT 2016, Dublin, Ireland, August 31 -- September 2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={ELEOT}, year={2017}, month={1}, keywords={Microlearning Social learning Question posing}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-49625-2_24} }- Bernhard Göschlberger
Year: 2017
Social Microlearning Motivates Learners to Pursue Higher-Level Cognitive Objectives
ELEOT
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49625-2_24
Abstract
With the advent of the smart phone, technology enhanced learning ultimately became mobile. The combination of small devices and ubiquitous availability promoted a certain type of informal learning called microlearning. Unfortunately, micro-learners tend to focus on the lower level cognitive objectives remembering and understanding. Social microlearning seeks to engage the learners in activities of higher cognitive levels – such as analyzing, evaluating and creating – by using successful strategies of social software. Early results confirm the assumption that learners’ activities evolve towards higher cognitive levels over time spent on a particular subject in a social microlearning environment. Consequently, social micro-learners gain deeper insights by progressing through an upwards spiral of competence development.