Abstract:

#EstudoEmCasa Apoia is a project from the Portuguese Ministry of Education that was created to suppress the need students felt to overcome and recover lost learnings, mainly after the COVID19 lockdowns that began in 2020. #EstudoEmCasa Apoia is a free-access platform, mainly directed to students but accessible to all, where different pedagogical contents – escape rooms, webinars, podcasts, quizzes, games, online courses, amongst others – are available. These resources, that grow in number every day, embrace the different subjects and areas of knowledge, levels 1 to 12, from the Portuguese curriculum. All of them were created by a group of teachers who studied the best way for students to access them, use them as means of study, while acquiring knowledge in an autonomous manner, where and when they want. The objective with this project and its content is to complement teachers’ work at school and give students the opportunity to learn by themselves any subject they feel has not been fully attained or that they want to improve.

This study aims at:
a) showing the conception and creation processes of microlearning contents, bearing in mind the different design criteria defined by the teacher/expert of each area of study; and
b) understanding how microlearning contents can impact and help students’ autonomous learning and recovery of lost learnings, and work as autonomous learning boosters.

The creation process is not centred on elementary learnings, as it aims at being interconnected with the context(s) the knowledge acquired will be applied to, as well as with other curriculum areas. At the same time, most of the microlearning contents available on the platform were created having in mind an aggregator concept, based on the construction of a narrative (storytelling) that allows students to study a learning sequence where each resource is not closed within itself, but rather continues to another one, may it be from the same subject or another one.

Keywords:

Microlearning, Storytelling, Digital education, Digital resources.