What’s “hawt” in eLearning? It may seem a bit oxymoronic to call anything in eLearning “hawt” but it does make it “funner”! This post quickly offers you a top five listicle of “hawt topix” in eLearning. If you are still confused, “hawt” = hot! Here’s the video version of this post: 5 Hawt Topix in eLearning – VIDEO
What’s trendy or “hawt” depends on what you do in the Learning and Development space. This is not a highly vetted list! Based on a quick recall conversation with several instructional designers and the video bias of the author, we, or shall I say I, have arrived at five Hawt Topix in eLearning. Let’s jump in with video-based learning!
Video-Based Learning
Video is awesome, video is great, give me video every day. There is no debate! ~Chris Karel
Video is hawt because it’s convenient, gives learners autonomy, and it engages your multi-sensory meat computer. Video is so hawt!
Learn more:
Five Reasons Why Learning Video is so Powerful
Why do You Need the Language of Video? VIDEO
10 Myths of DIY (Training) Learning Video
Microlearning
Microlearning is hawt because it’s all about small, bite-sized chunks of training or instruction that are less than 10 minutes in length. Some call them knowledge nuggets! People forget 90% of what they learn. Microlearning helps you remember.
Micro means small, duh!
Learn more:
Microlearning is Knowledge Nuggets – VIDEO
Mobile learning
Mobile is a boomer way of saying phone. Mobile learning (also called mLearning) means you are using your celly to learn. A celly is a phone that’s not plugged into a wall, duh!
Mobile learning is hawt right now because most people trying to learn things these days have a mobile phone in their pocket. Since most of us are on a celly, it makes sense for companies and schools to lean into this hawt topic!
Learn more:
Why Mobile Learning Is Now More Than Just A Nice-To-Have
Social Media learning
Social media learning is hawt because trainers and teachers are trying to meet people where they are. It allows people to communicate and find information quickly and the reach is global! There is a social aspect to social media, duh!
We know that people learn when they are around other people. You learned how to do most things by watching other people. Social media learning lets you try out ideas, share opinions, and get immediate feedback on things you’d like to learn. So hawt!
Learn more:
Social Media In Education: Can They Improve The Learning?
How To Use Social Media For Successful Learning And Development
Using Social Media for Learning
VR – Virtual Reality
A super hawt topik in eLearning is VR. We are a Discord channel and Twitch stream away from Ready Player One. Do you have your haptic gloves and self-cleaning chair? If not, maybe VR is too hawt for you! It’s meta confusing!
According to Future Visual, VR training is an immersive learning experience that recreates real life settings and simulates work challenges. It gives employees the chance to gain on-the-job training in a risk-free environment where they can learn by doing.
VR Training: 5 Reasons It’s Too Good To Ignore In 2022
Summary
What’s “hawt” in eLearning? Video or video-based learning is the hawtest of them all. Microlearning is bite-sized, chunks of training or instruction that are less than 10 minutes in length. Mobile learning (also called mLearning) means you are using your celly to learn and most people spend a lot of time on their “phones” these days! Social media learning lets you try out ideas, share opinions, and get immediate feedback. Finally, virtual reality training gives employees the chance to gain on-the-job training in a risk-free environment. What you think is “hawt” depends on your job. We are not buying spring clothes here, we are creating learning, and hawt topix in eLearning was a catchy way for this learning-nerd-author to have fun talking about it.
