because they're short. duh.
At KC-ASTD’s tech conference last fall, I attended a session by Sue Maden and Tony Maden on elearning pieces they’ve created at Burns and McDonnell. Some were Flip videos, some were screencasts, and some were interactive. Each took around 2 minutes. The whole point was to access the information just-in-time, so they weren’t serving them through their LMS.
Sound familiar? It did to me… We started doing something similar at my company this past year. We call them “trainlets”, and I’m going to get skewered in #lrnchat for spreading new terminology in our field, but the name has caught fire at my company, unlike “CBTs”.
I didn’t invent the term, but here’s what it means to me:
- <5 minutes
- usually not interactive, but can be
- probably not delivered through the LMS
Are you doing something similar? What do you call them?
Tags: elearning, ideas, terminology
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Judy,
I’ve been thinking about this concept for a long time, but I framed it based on the Youtube model. I’m finally getting to the point where my organization is okay with the idea. Because of the nature of our business, I’ve been trying to structure training based on:
o Experience
o Organizational Role
o and JIT.Of course, the concept is not new, I’ve just been calling them “short training modules,” but I really like the sound of “Trainlet”.
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