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Microlearning Design: Short Lessons That Stick, 320+ Tools
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Microlearning Design: Short Lessons That Stick, 320+ Tools
Cut a long course into pieces and nothing changed? Microlearning, instructional design, spaced repetition, AI content
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Build short lessons people return to at the moment of need: take 320+ AI prompts, procedures, question lists and checklists in 47 downloadable resources
- Check whether a topic fits a five-minute format with the Five-Minute Fit Check
- Design backwards from the moment of application, using adult learning, ADDIE and needs analysis
- Build spaced repetition into the schedule and use the factors that decide whether knowledge reaches real work
- Build performance support so the answer is available when it is needed
- Capture expertise from people who will never write a lesson themselves
- Generate short lessons, tests and variants with 111 ready AI prompts, and adapt one piece of material to several formats
- Measure whether people use what you produced, not only whether they liked it
- See microlearning and AI services on screen, including Quizlet, Typeform, Spekit, Notion and ChatGPT
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon
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Course content
13 sections • 36 lectures • 16h 18m total length
Requirements
- Responsibility for training content, or a plan to create it
- No instructional design background required: the methods are introduced from the start
- Access to any AI assistant for the prompt lessons; free versions of the services are enough to start
- English at intermediate level or above, since all lessons are in English
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Cutting a long course into pieces produces a long course in pieces. Length was never the variable: repetition and closeness to the moment of use decide whether learning survives. Here are 326 tools to design for that: 217 ready-to-use AI prompts, procedures, question lists, checklists, templates and matrices, 67 models and methods, 41 services shown on screen and the Five-Minute Fit Check.
Open a lecture, take the tool, turn one topic into a short lesson this week.
Why short lessons often do not work
A forty-minute lesson watched once and never reopened loses most of itself inside a week. Five minutes returned to on the day the skill is needed loses almost nothing. Yet most microlearning is designed forwards from a syllabus, published once and measured by completion rates, so nobody knows whether it changed anything at work.
What changes after this course
Each short lesson starts from the moment someone has to do the task. Repetition is planned, performance support sits where the work happens, and experts' knowledge turns into lessons without them writing a word. AI produces drafts, tests and variants in minutes, and you measure use and impact instead of satisfaction.
What is inside: 326 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
- 47 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus the Five-Minute Fit Check
- 217 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 111 ready AI prompts: recruiter course generation, learning assistance, instruction writing, information summarization and structuring
- 33 step-by-step procedures and workflows: learning design, programmed learning, Gagne’s nine instructional events, six-step learning transfer
- 26 question lists and scripts: training suitability diagnosis, learner experience review, expert knowledge capture, performance support needs
- 17 checklists: training needs diagnosis, learning design, learning transfer, post-training support
- 14 templates and sample documents: training program descriptions, knowledge index card, case study documentation, best practice documentation
- 13 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: business drivers and competencies, training outcome evidence, performance support selection, training evaluation evidence
- 3 formulas and metric sets: knowledge management effectiveness, learning effectiveness
- 67 models and methods explained with examples: ADDIE instructional design, microlearning design, just-in-time learning, adaptive learning
- 41 services shown on screen, including Quizlet, Typeform, Spekit, Notion, Miro and ChatGPT
Where the tools are
- Foundations, repetition and evaluation (3 sections, 72 tools). Adult learning, ADDIE, needs analysis, spaced repetition, learning transfer and measuring impact.
- Strategy, knowledge capture and performance support (3 sections, 105 tools). Learning strategy, turning expert insight into lessons and support at the moment of need.
- AI for microlearning (4 sections, 153 tools). Platforms, course generation, assessment, personal learning paths, prompt engineering, summaries and content adaptation.
- Engagement and motivation (2 sections, 23 tools). Gamification mechanics, recognition and course completion.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
At Wargaming the onboarding team trained every employee who needed Jira and Confluence in two days. In another company we chose an LMS with strong features but an outdated interface; managers called it clumsy as soon as they tried it, so we dropped it and added a learning plugin to Confluence, where people already worked every day.
How to use the course
Start with the Five-Minute Fit Check and the foundations, then go to knowledge capture, performance support or the AI sections for the content you produce next. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
- 36 lectures, 16.5 hours
- 47 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and the Five-Minute Fit Check
- 326 tools across the lessons, including 41 services shown on screen
- Lifetime access to all materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- A Udemy Certificate of Completion
Where to start
Pick one task people get wrong at work and run it through the Five-Minute Fit Check. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Learning and development specialists and instructional designers
- Corporate trainers moving from long workshops to short formats
- HR and L&D managers who need training that reaches daily work
- Subject matter experts who share knowledge inside their company
- Course creators who use AI to produce learning content