MICRO LEARNING IN EDUCATION
Putu Kerti Nitiasih, I Gede Ratnaya

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

Abstract

The students^ lacked interest in learning any subject in class tended to cause of having short memory about the material being explained. Micro-learning is a tiny activity by teachers and learners in the classroom, to help the students^ short memory. This is supported by the result of research done by George Millers that in a class session a human can only absorb 5 to 9 pieces of information before then storing it in long term memory or erasing it completely from memory. This means that teachers need to provide a bit-sized learning material to help students to maintain their memories. Based on that phenomena, this research therefore, developed video materials using the micro-learning concept and combined with three teaching model namely- problem-based learning, project-based learning and discovery-based learning. The effectiveness of the developed video materials for the learners of junior high school was evaluated using criteria of a good English materials suggested by the formula proposed by Nurkancana and Sunartana (2011). Moreover, the checklist consisted 5 scales of scoring they are- 5 represents excellent, 4 represents good, 3 represents average, 2 represents below average, and 1 represents poor. The result showed that the quality of the developed micro-learning-based video materials implemented at junior high school was good. Thus, the micro-learning based video materials were good to help the studetns at yunior high school to sustain their memories in learning any subject which in this case English.

Keywords: Micro-learning, English video Materials, and three teaching models

Topic: Education for sustainable development