E-Learning Heroes Challenge #407: Using Microlearning in Rise 360
This week’s E-Learning Heroes challenge was to use the new Rise 360 microlearning feature to create a project focused on a single learning objective. I haven’t had a chance to use Rise at all yet so I was really excited to jump in to this challenge and learn how to use this rapid authoring tool.
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My Content
I have wanted to create a project about supporting working mothers for a while. Since I created this project on March 8th, International Women’s Day, I thought this seemed like the perfect fit for this challenge!
I have two young children and I breastfed both of them until they were 10-11 months old. Luckily, I didn’t have to return to in-person, fulltime work for several months after I had my son. I was teaching and was able to work it out so that my maternity leave would last until summer. However, then COVID hit the nation and I actually did return to work about a month after he was born, just remotely. I did have to go to the building for certain duties though and struggled with juggling pumping and being away from my son since it wasn’t something I did regularly.
With my daughter, I had a 12 week leave and then had to return to work. I unfortunately didn’t have great support from my administrators and that was just one of many reasons that I became increasingly stressed out and felt more and more driven towards leaving the classroom.
For this microlearning project, I focused on four simple things that a team leader, administrator, or manager can do to support a breastfeeding mother as she returns to work. I did not include any system-level solutions like longer leave, unlimited PTO, or working remotely. I focused on simple and effective things that a manger could do with very little effort that would have a great impact on the working mother.
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My Process
I have been a part of a Facebook Group called “Generation Lactation” since I was pregnant with my first child. I asked the members what kind of support they had experienced when they returned to work that was really helpful. I received lots of great answers and was pleasantly surprised to find that many of them had experienced companies and managers who were very helpful in their breastfeeding journey.
I compiled their answers and narrowed them down to just a few things that a manager or team-leader would have full control over (without having to go to higher management and ask for system-level changes.)
I used Canva to find beautiful stock images of women breastfeeding or holding babies, being cognizant of selecting a variety of inclusive images. I also created an image of a pumping room in Canva by selecting a background image and then finding individual elements for each of the items a breastfeeding mother would need in a room for expressing breast milk.
I used the microlearning feature to quickly put these images together with basic text. I added an introduction that previewed the four steps and then a content section that gave more details about each one. For the first step of providing a private space for pumping, I added markers on top of the image I had created to make it interactive. At the end, I used a carousel to quickly review each of the ideas.
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