Spacing & Retrieval for Micro-Content
What you'll walk away with: the ability to design a spaced delivery schedule for any micro-content series — with the right intervals and retrieval events.
Ride the line
The science is clear: when you deliver matters as much as what you deliver. Each stop covers one aspect of spaced and retrieval practice — from intervals to interleaving to the drip campaign model.
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The spacing effect
Why distributed practice beats massed practice
The most robust finding in learning science
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Optimal intervals for micro-content
Thalheimer's research on spacing schedules
Ready-to-use interval schedule
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Retrieval practice in 3 minutes
Karpicke's testing effect applied to micro-formats
Replace re-reading with retrieval
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Interleave across topics
Why mixing beats blocking for retention
Counterintuitive scheduling trick
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The drip campaign model
Sustained micro-delivery over weeks
4-week delivery template
Anti-pattern
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Massed practice disguised as spacing
Daily modules aren't spaced if they're all new
Mistake you're probably making
Principle & Evidence
Expanding intervals beat fixed intervals
Expanding intervals beat fixed intervals
Stat you can cite to stakeholders