Top Content Providers For Microlearning (2023 Update)

Highlights

• Drive Employee Performance

Their learner-centric microlearning solutions offer flexibility, ease of consumption, and engagement that matches learner needs and expectations.

• Continuous Learning

Their strategies drive continuous learning and help learners overcome the forgetting curve through spaced repetition and leverage a learning and performance ecosystem.

• Immersive Microlearning Formats

They deliver 24 unique microlearning formats across platforms, including new-age gamification, VR/AR, complex branching scenarios, and interactive videos.

Achievements

EI has leveraged microlearning for customers across 26 industry verticals. They ranked No. 1 in eLearning Industry's list of Top Content Providers for Microlearning for three consecutive years. They are proud recipients of over 400 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards.

What's more, you can use their solutions across the learning journey in several timeframes, whether it is to gain learner interest, test existing knowledge, facilitate learning, or reinforce learning in spaced intervals.

Firstly, they can help your organization identify the opportunity for micro content. Afterward, they manage to pick the right content, which meets your performance-based learning objectives. Lastly, they select the form based on the function.

They also offer comprehensive services for streamlined design and development. Their formidable Instructional Design and authoring tools mastery come in handy—whether designing micro assets from scratch or reconfiguring existing training material to microlearning.

Highlights

• New-Age Learning Design
  They design and develop microlearning solutions that organizations can use on several occasions—for example, standalone training as part of a blended strategy or as a performance support tool. To offer solutions that impact performance and, thereby, training ROI positively, CommLab takes certain steps. Firstly, they set performance-based learning objectives. Secondly, they incorporate new-age Instructional Design for sticky learning experiences. CommLab India leverages multiple formats to enhance interest and engagement, from infographics and quizzes to videos and how-to guides. 

• Reduced SME Involvement
  They follow a unique "quick and dirty" method, which saves SMEs time by reducing touchpoints between the SME and the development team.

1. 1. The SME creates a rough PowerPoint deck.
   2. The SME records the explanation of the slide deck on their smartphone.
   3. CommLab India enhances the slide deck instructionally and polishes the narration script.
   4. The SME reviews and finalizes both.
   5. The development team develops the asset and gives the final touches before rollout.

• Robust Project Management and Quality Assurance Processes
  To ensure high-impact and error-free microlearning solutions, CommLab India adheres to a specific procedure. At first, they use an iterative, agile Project Management process. Hence, their method offers scope for communication with the client at every stage of the project. Then, they utilize corporate style guides and branding documents for a consistent look and feel. Also, they employ quality assurance checklists for flawless courses. Plus, they run previews on mobile devices to identify and rectify bugs. Finally, they use online review tools to speed up the review and feedback process.

Achievements

CommLab India Rapid eLearning Solutions has designed and developed microlearning solutions for organizations from different industries. Some of them include food and beverage, manufacturing, health and safety, hospitality, hygiene, water management, flour milling and grain innovations, and energy solutions—clocking a total of 2,210 development hours.

Notable mentions include creating microlearning solutions in different formats (for pre, during, and post-training) for an audience of more than 90,000. Their team can convert PPT decks used for classroom training into microlearning videos in less than two weeks. What's more, they can help you design eBriefs of 10-15 minutes for sales reps. Also, they have developed a curriculum of micro episodes on customer relationships.

Creating micro assets to engage employees is one of their top deliverables (e.g., email templates, wallpapers, video teasers). Plus, they are good at developing interactive quick reference guides. Finally, they excel at encapsulating the critical takeaways of eLearning courses in short videos.

Highlights

• Personalization

By organizing microlearning activities into functional groups around subjects, processes, or job roles, learners can more easily access the content they need to complete job-related tasks. In-depth needs analyses and performance mapping methods help determine which behaviors are vital to specific roles. As a result, the above dictates which custom design strategies organizations need to follow. 

• Content Development

Each micromodule should target the knowledge and behaviors specific to the desired performance outcome. So, AllenComm Instructional Designers construct the training content strategically, using a combination of content mediums (e.g., motion graphics, infographics, and video).

• Learning Ecosystem

While microlearning is meant to be concise and condensed, it's crucial to integrate these activities within the broader learning strategy. The performance consulting teams at AllenComm can design a robust learning ecosystem that aligns microlearning with other training modalities in one cohesive learning experience.

Achievements

BD wanted to create an effective, digital, on-demand learning solution. The learning solution created applied a microlearning approach with personalization based on skills assessments that gave nurses the flexibility to fit the training into their very busy schedules.

Highlights

• Foster A Culture Of Learning

SweetRush makes learning easily accessible, quickly consumable, and so engaging that learners stay motivated, retain what they learned, and share with their peers.

• Microlearning, Multimedia, Mobile

Their LX approach brings you effective instruction, agency-level UX, UI, and graphics, plus fun/functional interactive experiences, from mobile job aids to microgames.

• Partnership

SweetRush attracts the best talent in the industry. If you're looking for a strategic, consultative, solution-oriented, and collaborative partner, consider SweetRush for your microlearning.

Achievements

Since 2017, SweetRush has won 147 Brandon Hall awards (106 Golds) for custom learning programs, which often include microlearning. We work with many industries that can benefit from microlearning, including financial services, healthcare, business services, and retail.

Their expertise on this topic can help you accomplish the quest for more effective training by focusing on personalization, AI, and knowledge acquisition. Do you want to find out more about why they are one of the top microlearning content providers?

Highlights

• Open Learning Experiences

Their publicly accessible courses are a great example of how an LXP enhances the learning experience. Thus, Stream LXP can be your tool to create microlearning content that accommodates self-directed learning. As it became clear, many people needed to get their learning online quickly due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Thus, they recently launched their free OLX, "Rapidly Put Your Learning Online." As a result, they managed to address learning professionals' needs with an open structure that orders content flexibly. Hence, it is useful for a linear sequence as well as for Just-In-Time learning.

• Off-The-Shelf Micro Content

Their Future Skills library is a step-change in off-the-shelf learning content and focuses on micro-experiences. Besides, the content has no restrictions since there isn't any format or authoring tool that bounds it. Instead, the content and its purpose are allowed to dictate how users present it. Video essays, animations, Adapt modules, Storyline modules, support resources, and curated content all get combined for a modern microlearning experience.

• Social Microlearning

The lockdown has prompted many organizations to switch to online delivery. Hence, the design of learning experiences for their clients during this situation focuses on maintaining the social aspects that made those old training pieces successful. To deliver an extra level of engagement, they design experiences with social features such as forum facilitation, learners polls, and learner submissions.

Achievements

For the record, both of their newly developed libraries (Future Skills and Future of Working) follow a microlearning philosophy. Apart from developing these libraries of off-the-shelf content, they have delivered several successful custom microlearning projects. Those custom efforts had a focus on organizations across retail, sport, and finance. The introduction of their campaign product, Waves, has enabled them to take these programs even further. By using tailored notifications and reporting, they create microlearning that falls into the learner's workflow.

Kineo has helped hundreds of businesses improve performance by creating a better workplace learning experience through digital learning and learning platforms, covering everything from instructional design to creative asset development and video production. They are proud of their reputation for being flexible and innovative and of their award-winning work with clients across the world.

Highlights

• Collaboration And Social Interaction

Clearly, engaged learners are likely to consume more of your microlearning than those who aren't engaged. By including interactivity and hosting microlearning elements on social platforms, microlearning encourages better engagement between learners and learning content. Actually, it's ideal for light form-factor content. For example, through the use of their LXP platform, Totara Engage: Kineo Edition, you can help trainers, video producers, and consumers collaborate and interact with each other through the content, driving greater interest and engagement.

• Cost-Effective

Small-footprint microlearning content (compared to producing and maintaining courses built for full-blown online training programs) is more cost-effective (and convenient). Kineo's learning designers can also help you make the most of your existing content. So, rather than piecing together video content yourself, work with experts in the field and your SMEs to create microlearning content such as selfie videos and content snippets.

• Ideal For Just-In-Time Training

Some tasks at work aren't frequently used on the job. All the employee is looking for is a 5-minute "helping hand" to do it–and then they'll likely be self-sufficient to continue on their own—ideal for learning just when you need it.

Achievements

Energy Institute commissioned Kineo to design a series of short animations. The main point being exploring safety information and insights for high-risk situations. However, these animations needed to be short in length, focus on specific incidents, and clearly show what happened, providing key learnings to help users remain safe. The EI's Stuart King said that Kineo showed a real understanding of the project's needs throughout the process. Also, he pointed that Kineo helped bring the incidents to life with their knowledge of the energy sector. Mr. King was impressed by the speed at which they worked. And at how well both teams worked together. Finally, he pointed that the animations would be great additions to Toolbox.

Highlights

• Customizable Games

Choose from 10 game templates. Customize in an easy online editor. Publish to the web, any authoring tool, or an LMS. Your team can compete against each other or themselves.

• Off-The-Shelf Training

Prebuilt microlearning courses are easy to add into your existing training program for supplemental learning or on-the-job training.

• Custom-Built Learning

Their award-winning team can create tailored microlearning that addresses your workers' immediate needs and skills gaps.

Achievements

ELB Learning's award-winning products and services can help organizations in any industry deliver better learning experiences.

Highlights

• Engagement

They divide the content into short segments that keep learners engaged and interested to avoid losing their attention throughout the segment.

• Enthusiasm

Content delivered through short and to-the-point courses that are visually appealing and connected makes learners enthusiastic and eager for the next installment.

• Practicality

Precise micromodules are very practical and allow learners to get their portion of knowledge at any time and any place, even if they don't have much free time to spare.

Achievements

eWyse is experienced in delivering quality eLearning content in a clear and precise manner, and their case studies prove it. No matter the topic, the field, or the type of content, they will find an eLearning solution according to the client's specific wants and needs.

Highlights

• Objective-Driven Microlearning Programs

Their microlearning programs are objective-driven and are created to address a single objective. Through the focused microlearning nugget, the learners get the right information to perform their tasks better.

• Engaging, Exciting, And Inspiring

They build custom microlearning programs that take into account the memorability factor. At the same time, they are engaging and exciting.

• Customer Delight

Tesseract Learning is on a mission to exceed expectations. That's why they continuously deliver high-quality learning solutions, always on time and within each client's budget.

Achievements

Tesseract Learning has implemented a variety of microlearning solutions for its customers. They have ranked in eLearning Industry's list of Top Content Providers for Microlearning for three consecutive years.

Highlights

• Custom Learning

Microlearning, authoring tool-based development, interactive video, 3D model development, game-based learning, product simulation, assessment, AR/VR/Metaverse development, chatbot.

• Nudge-Learning

App-based and competency-based nudges, training material reinforcement, knowledge check quizzes, badges to encourage right learner behavior, spaced learning, learning journey creation.

• Learning Design

Content curation, CBL, bite-sized nuggets, performance support bot, mobile app, learning analytics, xAPI statement design/development, dashboard for xAPI statements, accessible content.

Achievements

• • Awards

eLearning Industry (18), Brandon Hall Group (16), CLO Award (1)

• • Industries

HR, eLearning, digital publishing, education, high tech

• • Case Study

Partnering with Online Career School to Help Implement Microlearning Strategy

Highlights

• How TikTok Can Be Used To Deliver Learning Content

As a great support to larger learning initiatives.

• How TikTok Can Be Used To Engage Learners

The shorter, easy-to-navigate style of these videos starts to create engaging "binge-able" content your learners are actually excited to flip through.

• Where TikTok Fits Into Corporate Culture

So many places! Onboarding training, software training, event/training invites.

Achievements

Anchored Training have seen a wide variety of industries that could benefit from adapting this style of content into their L&D. Particularly those companies that are seeing an influx of Gen Z and millennial employees who are already used to consuming content in this manner.