{"id":12451,"date":"2016-06-08T16:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12451"},"modified":"2016-06-08T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:48:19","slug":"micro-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12451","title":{"rendered":"Micro-learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email yesterday from someone who is &#8220;developing a micro-learning program dedicated to language learning&#8221;. This was the first time I&#8217;d heard the term <strong>micro-learning<\/strong> so I wasn&#8217;t entirely sure what it meant.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microlearning\">Wikipedia<\/a>, microlearning &#8220;deals with relatively small learning units and short-term learning activities&#8221;. This sounds like the technique some people recommend of using whatever spare moments you have to learn a bit more of a language, or whatever you&#8217;re studying.<\/p>\n<p>Do you engage in microlearning?<\/p>\n<p>Do you find it a good way to learn?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried this, and find it can be quite effective, but prefer to learn in a focused way with as few distractions as possible for a longer time &#8211; about 30 minutes seems work best for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email yesterday from someone who is &#8220;developing a micro-learning program dedicated to language learning&#8221;. This was the first time I&#8217;d heard the term micro-learning so I wasn&#8217;t entirely sure what it meant. According to Wikipedia, microlearning &#8220;deals with relatively small learning units and short-term learning activities&#8221;. This sounds like the technique some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}