ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses upon the conceptual engagement of learners within microlearning events, born from real world implementation of microlearning design and development within the business and industry training and talent development workforce realm of understanding. The integration of microlearning throughout the learning approaches of pedagogical novice, andragogy, and heutagogy, is articulated through the Recursive, Reflect, Engage, Develop, and Scaffold (RREDS) Microlearning Model of instructional design within a differentially structured training event understanding. This model is framed through the informational and instructional understandings of learning, highlighting the metaphoric representation of time as progressive and differentiated engagement, emphasizing the ebb and flow of learning and information through an hourglass approach while extending the time metaphor towards approaching curricular engagement within different end-user understandings.
