OttoLearn® Blog

Articles about OttoLearn and our story, ideas about Agile Microlearning, thoughts on online training, and much more.

May 3, 2023

Designing for All: Creating Accessible Content in OttoLearn

Discover how to make your content accessible in OttoLearn and ensure everyone benefits, and finds value, in your training.
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February 1, 2021

Why You Should Tap the Power of Deliberate Practice

Deliberate practice is essential to learning any skill. We'll show you how to tap the power of deliberate practice and use it for improving employee performance.
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December 28, 2020

Top 10 Ways to Explore Microlearning!

Our most popular posts of 2020 focused on providing a great microlearning experience and learning about technologies, like AI, that could help make that happen.
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December 14, 2020

Microlearning Shines Amid 2020’s Challenges

Bridging distance, technology gaps, and more, microlearning showed its strengths by meeting the tough challenges 2020 posed.
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December 7, 2020

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Be Both Engaging and Effective?

Resolve the tension between eLearning that appeals to efficient learners and eLearning that is effective — turn to microlearning for the best of both worlds!
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November 16, 2020

Build Microlearning with Knowledge Maps to Improve Training Outcomes

A knowledge map shows the relationships among training objectives. Learn how planning microlearning with knowledge maps leads to improved training outcomes!
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November 9, 2020

How to Fit Microlearning into Your Training Program

Learn how a continuous adaptive microlearning platform fits into every stage of your training program, improving training performance and training outcomes.
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November 2, 2020

5 Reasons to Use Microlearning for Your Compliance Training

Whatever the reasons you do compliance training, your goal is changing behavior. Try effective continuous microlearning to boost your training outcomes.
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October 26, 2020

Burning Questions: What Are the Elements of Effective Microlearning?

Effective microlearning focuses on learners’ needs and preferences and uses proven cognitive science principles.
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October 19, 2020

Turn the Forgetting Curve into a Retention Strategy

Revising information-dense instructional content into a narrative framework can enliven the content and boost learner engagement — for learners of any age!
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September 28, 2020

Warm Up Your Fall with These HOT Microlearning Blog Posts

Our top 5 posts of 2020 (so far) dive into gamification, how to retain employees, using artificial intelligence (AI) in eLearing, and benefits of microlearning. Enjoy!
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September 14, 2020

Continuous Learning Leads to Continuous Performance Support

Fostering a learning culture through continuous learning provides performance support and prepares employees to face new challenges.
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August 24, 2020

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Help Workers Tame the Time Famine?

The COVID-19 crisis is driving interest in online training but workers are busier than ever. Tame their time famine with our adaptive microlearning platform!
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August 17, 2020

Enhance Learner Experience (LX) with Adaptive Microlearning

Adaptive microlearning covers all the elements needed to boost learner experience: personalized, retention-focused content, low cognitive load and more.
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August 10, 2020

You Use Microlearning Every Day

We all use microlearning every day. Creating effective, engaging microlearning that your learners will use every day will improve your training outcomes.
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July 20, 2020

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Measure Actual Learning?

OttoLearn, our gamified microlearning platform, has adaptive algorithms that measure actual learning — not just whether learners finished a training course.
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July 13, 2020

How Does Performance Support Enhance Self-Directed Learning?

Busy workers turn to self-directed learning for quick answers. Use a microlearning platform as a performance support to align this learning with business goals.
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July 6, 2020

Microlearning: Effective Training Anywhere

Microlearning has demonstrated its effectiveness in engaging learners and improving performance and retention. Learn what makes microlearning so effective!
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June 22, 2020

Microlearning Offers On-Demand Performance Support

Training is not always the solution busy employees need; on-demand performance support is an efficient solution to in-the-workflow information needs.
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June 15, 2020

Soteria120 & OttoLearn Protect Workers, Combat COVID-19 Misinformation

OttoLearn & Soteria120 present a business resource to fight COVID-19 misinformation, educate, and assist business owners, via microlearning platform.
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June 8, 2020

Mitigate COVID-19 Risk with OttoLearn

Instill confidence with training on new safety protocols quickly with OttoLearn's microlearning platform, mitigating COVID-19 risk to employees and customers.
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May 18, 2020

Prepare Your Front-Line Workers to Battle COVID-19!

Use microlearning to prepare front-line workers needing to master new health and safety protocols to protect themselves — and customers — against COVID-19.
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April 27, 2020

Deploy Tactical Training to Win World War C

When combating adversity and unpredictability, deploy a tactical solution: OttoLearn Agile Microlearning
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April 13, 2020

Microlearning 101: A Comprehensive Introduction

Microlearning is a buzzword that’s popping up everywhere. Our new article series explores what it means and why microlearning matters.
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April 6, 2020

Pivot to Microlearning

With most face-to-face instruction on hold, it’s a great time to turn to always-available microlearning.
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March 2, 2020

Entice Gig Workers to Engage More Deeply — with Microlearning

You can’t require them to train; instead, entice contractors and gig workers to upskill by engaging them with an adaptive microlearning platform.
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February 24, 2020

Where’s the Beef?

Adult learners demand relevance, immediacy, convenience, utility — not fancy packaging. Find out how adaptive microlearning gives them what they want!
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February 3, 2020

Simplify Multilingual Content with the Right Microlearning Platform

With OttoLearn, you'll meet your global learners' training needs with a microlearning platform that makes it easy to create and maintain multilingual content.
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January 27, 2020

Instructional Scaffolding Flexibly Supports all Learners

When you build instructional scaffolding into your adaptive microlearning, providing each learner with the support they need, all learner outcomes can improve!
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December 2, 2019

How Is eLearning Like the Company T-shirt?

No two learners are alike, yet corporate training treats all learners the same. What's the best way to create personalized training that adapts to your learner?
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November 18, 2019

Why Spaced Repetition Is Critical for Learning & Retention

Our continuous adaptive microlearning platform uses spaced repetition, engaging learners with training for only minutes a day — that's CRITICAL for retention!
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November 7, 2019

Girls S.T.E.A.M. Press Release

The new Online Learning Center uses our adaptive microlearning platform to deliver 24/7 self-paced, multilingual, personalized training on S.T.E.A.M. topics.
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October 7, 2019

OttoLearn Q3 Feature Updates

Announcing a major update to the UI of our adaptive microlearning platform. Inspired by popular media apps it's fast, intuitive, stunning and instantly familiar!
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September 9, 2019

Did You Miss This Summer’s "Hottest" Reading?

Can microlearning... Boost retention? Improve engagement? Help calculate ROI? Make learners love training? Your 'Burning Questions' answered and more!
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September 2, 2019

Choose Microlearning for Scalable and Personalized Learning

Part of a large or high-growth business? Our adaptive microlearning platform solves your online training challenges by offering personalized, scalable learning.
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August 19, 2019

What IS Microlearning Anyway?

What is microlearning, besides a buzzword? We feel it must answer a question, meet an immediate need, or help the learner solve a problem. Learn more!
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July 22, 2019

We Don't Need No Education!

People want to learn but long courses aren't the answer. Fit learning into workers' busy days with adaptive microlearning. A solution for today's learners.
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May 20, 2019

Want Better Retention? Give Learners a Break!

Give your learners a break! Learn how spaced repetition boosts retention. Our adaptive microlearning platform uses this and other proven learning principles.
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March 18, 2019

Crowd Favorites: Our 9 Most Popular Otto Blog Posts!

Don't miss our best content of 2018: Top 9 posts on adaptive microlearning, online training, learner engagement, retention, training outcomes and much more!
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February 18, 2019

A Tale of Nine Trainers

8 trainers gather to share common training woes; a ninth offers a solution: OttoLearn. Try our adaptive microlearning platform for effective online training.
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February 11, 2019

Continuous Microlearning Ups Compliance Training Engagement

Move your annual compliance training to our adaptive microlearning platform and boost engagement by delivering short, daily, continuous training to employees.
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January 28, 2019

5 Signs You Need Agile Microlearning

Do you need Agile Microlearning? These 5 signs point to a need for our adaptive microlearning platform to deliver effective personalized online training daily.
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January 14, 2019

The State of Microlearning: OttoLearn’s 2019 Q1 Roadmap

New 2019 features added to our adaptive microlearning platform included Knowledge Cards, the Analytics Dashboard and SCORM and LMS Integrations!
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October 23, 2017

WHY We Built OttoLearn

Unlike traditional eLearning, our adaptive microlearning platform increases retention with personalized learning to efficiently deliver effective training.
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