BITE-SIZED TEACHING IS A SHORT-SCALE LEARNING METHOD PARTICULARLY SUITED TO ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING AND WORK BASED LEARNING. COURSES ARE CARRIED OUT IN A FULLY ONLINE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH PARTICIPANTS LEARN OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, NORMALLY 1 OR 2 WEEKS. LEARNING OCCURS THROUGH A SERIES OF 20 MINUTE TASKS DELIVERED ON A DAILY BASIS. THIS APPROACH BRINGS TOGETHER THE BENEFITS OF FLEXIBLE, SHORT, JUST-IN-TIME LEARNING (SIMKINS & MAIER, 2009) AND THE BENEFITS OF SOCIAL LEARNING APPROACHES, SUCH AS LEARNING COMMUNITIES OR A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (LAVE & WENGER, 1991). IT IS ALSO UNDERPINNED BY RESEARCH INTO HUMAN ATTENTION SPANS, DRAWING FROM ROBERT PIKE'S 90/20/8 RULE (PIKE, 1994), ON INFORMATION CHUNKING AND INTERACTION. BITE-SIZED LEARNING HAS BEEN FOUND BY THE AUTHOR TO BE A VERY EFFECTIVE WORK-BASED LEARNING METHOD, ENCOURAGING BUSY, TIME-LIMITED INDIVIDUALS TO PARTICIPATE IN LEARNING. THIS FORM OF TEACHING CARRIES SIGNIFICANT RETENTION PROBLEMS, HOWEVER, AND RETAINING PARTICIPANTS IN THE LATTER PARTS OF THE COURSE IS PROBLEMATIC. LEARNING ANALYTICS DRAWN FROM THE AUTHOR'S COURSES CLEARLY SHOW THIS TREND, COMPLETION RATES RANGING FROM 60% TO 39%. THIS PAPER SHARES THE AUTHOR'S RESEARCH IN SHORT COURSE ENGAGEMENT TRENDS, BASED ON A RANGE OF COURSES RUN DURING THE PAST 2 YEARS. THE WORK PRESENTED HERE IS BASED ON A MIXED METHODS APPROACH USING A SEQUENTIAL EXPLANATORY STRATEGY. THIS BEGAN WITH QUANTITATIVE DATA IN THE FORM OF LEARNING ANALYTICS TO DETERMINE BASELINE ENGAGEMENT TRENDS, FOLLOWED BY SURVEY-BASED QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AIMED AT EXPLAINING THOSE TRENDS. THIS ALLOWS TRIANGULATION BETWEEN SURVEY BASED DATA AND REAL-LIFE USAGE DATA, ADDING RIGOUR TO THE RESULTS. THIS PAPER OUTLINES THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS TYPE OF EVALUATION IN ADVANCE OF A PRACTICE BASED ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT. STACKING A SEQUENTIAL EXPLANATORY MIXED METHODS EVALUATION WITH AN ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT BASED ON MIXED METHODS APPROACHES IS FELT TO OVERCOME SOME OF THE LIMITATIONS OF NORMAL ACTION RESEARCH, SUCH AS SUBJECTIVITY AND A LACK OF BASELINE MEASUREMENTS FOR USE IN EVALUATING SUCCESS. FURTHERMORE, THIS PAPER WILL OUTLINE THE REASONS FOR CHOOSING A GROUNDED THEORY METHODOLOGY AND A SEQUENTIAL EXPLORATORY STRATEGY FOR THE SECOND RESEARCH PHASE, AND WHY STACKING TWO MIXED METHODS STRATEGIES MAY BE ADVANTAGEOUS FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION RESEARCH.