Is Nanolearning the Future of Training?

Nanolearning is a didactic process that addresses students' stream of experience, values, and prior knowledge. It is defined as a direct pathway in the educational area, which allows rapid understanding of new knowledge, assimilation, and implementation to solve challenging solutions and includes the deployment of cognitive, psychological, and social skills.

Nanolearning has become a study tool used widely in modern societies because it relates to short and effective teaching processes. It has become an educational trend by transforming learning methods and is almost sure to become the future of training in academic and work environments.

According to the Institute of Education of the ORT University of Uruguay, nanolearning is an educational modality that involves offering students precise and condensed information, but in increasingly smaller, fragmented, and attractive quantities, in less time. Experts have determined that increasing the speed at which students learn new knowledge also increases assimilation and retention of information. It is necessary to consider that some technological factors have transformed the way we learn, such as social networks, the internet, and some forms of entertainment.

The Usefulness of Videos as a Nanolearning Tool

Through nanolearning, educators offer students small pieces of condensed information, which help students by increasing the likelihood of attracting and retaining attention, improving performance, and collaborating with their learning capacities. Nanolearning uses various technological tools to transmit knowledge to students, including videos, images, infographics, and podcasts. These tools can help reduce overly-extensive academic materials and those with educational utility.

The digital world is interfering more and more with the way that newer generations study. Because of this shortening in concentration and reduced ability of students to pay attention to their teachers, modern education demands a redesign of learning experiences, in which digitization intervenes. A video made by students on a topic such as the ear canal can provide more insight than an oral presentation by several students on this topic.

Short videos as an educational tool can be invaluable and act as part of an effective strategy in the nanolearning process. Watching a video can raise students' concentration, especially if the video content is attractive. Videos with a variety of photos, images, dialogues, and interesting stories, can be useful to attract and retain attention.

Teachers and Students Must be Open to Nanolearning

It can be vital for teachers to incorporate these changes in their teaching processes and rethink the presentation of didactic content to students by redesigning their academic stories into faster, more dynamic languages with graphic and auditory elements. These redesigns are a modern educational trend that relies on captivating, short, and visually attractive materials. These materials, more than ever, help capture the attention of students.

Nanolearning is useful in our modern world, where the immediacy and rapid changes brought by constant technological innovation and globalization prevail.?Because of this, nanolearning is indeed consolidating as a new and necessary trend in education. Teachers and students should adopt nanolearning as a modern educational tool capable of speeding up learning processes, especially in a society saturated by the internet and new information technologies.

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