THE APPLICATIONS OF MICROLEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN TEXTILES

Abstract

Nowadays, the educational system is not able to satisfy the job market requirements in a sufficient rate. Because of this reason, the young people are not interested in spending the time to listen to lectures or to read bulky books. They prefer immediate use or application of the obtained knowledge and skills and require the options to learn anytime and anywhere, not only in the schools. It is therefore necessary for teachers and trainers to try to understand that young people are more active than their parents in general, and they choose their knowledge and skills, whose usefulness they can imagine or prove in a short time. This is possible to achieve using the online learning, which is widely used by different organizations (schools, universities and also companies). But online courses seem to imitate traditional ones (structure, resources, etc.), which does not bring the desired results. In view of these observations, the ability to learn and the learning speed are thus an important factor for increasing the quality of individual life, not only for students and adults. From this point of view, the lifelong education and training is a feature of the Information Society. Taking into account the fact that technologies are constantly evolving, learning never ceases, and students and employees should be familiar with new information, completing knowledge gaps and keeping learning materials. Micro-learning can fill these gaps as it arrives just in time and it is compliant with the specific needs the learners have. This article presents the possibility of using Moodle cloud to create micro-learning content.