Proposed Standards of Designing Microcontent in Digital Learning Environment

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This study aimed to investigate the proposed standards of designing microcontent in a digital learning environment. The research used the analytical descriptive research procedures based on deliberative inquiry approach in the presentation, study and analysis of the researches to obtain the standards. A final list of 4 standards and 62 indicators can be used to design microcontent in digital learning environments for application in digital education and training fields.

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Proposed Standards of Designing Microcontent in Digital Learning Environment
Dr.TaghreedAlrehaili
Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the proposed standards of designing microcontent in a digital
learning environment. The research used the analytical descriptive research procedures based on
deliberative inquiry approach in the presentation, study and analysis of the researches to obtain the
standards. A final list of 4 standards and 62 indicators can be used to design microcontent in digital
learning environments for application in digital education and training fields.
Key words: Instructional Design, Microcontent, Content Chunking, Microlearning, Digital Learning
Environments.
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Taylor, 2017
Mosel, 2005
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Sekhon, & Hartley, 2014; Izabel et al., 2015; Sun et al., 2018

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Matthews et al., 2014
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
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Sekhon, & Hartley, 2014
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2007
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Atkinson, & Ceglia, 2017
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Nikou & Economides, 2018

MBmLA
Guo, Kim, &
Rubin, 2014a mixed methods approach6.9
edX MOOCMIT, Harvard,
Berkeley
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Zhang & Ren, 2011
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Hug, 2006
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Matthews et al., 2014; Souza & Amaral, 2014;
Pajarito & Feria, 2015

breaking contentsmaller chunks

single
learning outcomeMatthews et al., 2014
Lindner, 2007

Chunking

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Gobet & Lane, 2012; Rabinovich, Varona, Tristan, & Afraimovich, 2014
chunkmaximally compressed
codeChunksMathy & Feldman, 2012

Gobet & Lane, 2012
Information Density
  
chunks

Newman, 2010
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Rabinovich et al., 2014Lah,
Saat, & Hassan, 2014
Gobet & Lane, 2012
Rabinovich et al., 2014

Belcher, 2018Hitt & Smith, 2017

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

Munyofu, Swain, Ausman, Lin, Kidwai, & Dwyer, 2007
Fountain & Doyle, 2012
Cowan, 2014

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Nagy et al.,
2018
Belcher, 2018

Lah et al., 2014
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
The template theory
schema theory

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information processing theoryBanas
& Velez-Solic, 2013Chunking Theory
ChaseSimon1973
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Gobet & Lane, 2012
chunk-based theories
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Gobet, 2005chunk-
based modelsGobet, 2005
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information- processing
cognitive learningcognitive loadHsieh, 2017
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Robinet, Lemaire, &
Gordon, 2011chunking
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Fountain & Doyle, 2012
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  Yuan & Guo, 2013a
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Souza & Amaral, 2014
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Mendes Dos Santos Gerbaudo, Gaspar, Marangoni De Bona, Camara Cesar, &
Alves, 2018a business model
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Park & Kim, 2018
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flash, HTML5, H5P
Jahnke, Lee, Pham, He, & Austin, 2020thematic analysis
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Mercurio, Torre, & Torsani, 2011
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
Mixed chunking
35
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 

characteristic chunking



36
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
37


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



39

40

41

42

43

44

45

46

47

48



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
49

50
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51

52
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53

54

55

56

57
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58


59

60

61
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62
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- 
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