ABSTRACT
Within a communal constructivist approach and a context of contribution-oriented pedagogy, learners not only consume content, they can also produce content for reuse within the educational context. To this end, instructors and facilitators of educational experiences are able to create opportunities for co-creation and collaboration to construct microlearning objects. In addition, learning is becoming increasingly multimodal in terms of individual preferences, interactions, modes of instruction, and delivery at the course and institutional level. Multimodal learning is an approach to education where individual modal preferences, communication through different modalities, and learning, teaching and delivery by means of different modes are considered. This chapter explores the affordances of self-directed multimodal learning for microlearning, presents an illustrative case study, and proposes practical steps to create opportunities conducive to effective student self-directed multimodal learning through microlearning object creation.
