The Advantage of Small Educational Building Blocks

One of the key features of the Blue Mango Learning System is the length of individual lessons - they are short. Why is "short" advantageous? Several reasons:

1. Short lessons tend to be more focused on one subject. This keeps the lesson material from delving off into tangents that would be best presented in a separate lesson.
2. Focused lessons are more easily reused. A system that contains many short lessons is infinitely more flexible than a system that contains a few long lessons. Short lessons can easily be reordered, combined, and eliminated to create the building blocks to teach additional skills. This creates a learning system that is extremely expandable. A new skill can be taught by simply referencing the "short" lessons that describe the skills necessary to perform the task.
3. Short lesson are more easily consumed. The average attention span is between 15 and 20 minutes. By creating lessons that fall below this range you can make easy for the learner to consume and retain the information that is being presented.

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