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• The End of ‘Learning Style’ Lore? | The Weekly Standard – Oh, please make it so! It would be great to finally put this BS behind us. From the article: "According to some 30 neuroscientists connected to top U.S., British, and Continental universities, the learning-styles approach is bunk."
• ‘Follow your Passion’ is Wrong, Here are 7 Habits You Need Instead – Most people are not fortunate enough to have found their passion and built a carer around it. This list can help you be successful and satisfied, sans passion.

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• The Myth of "Micro-Learning" | Bottom-Line Performance – Finally, a voice of reason in all the micro-learning hysteria. I believe it is really only suitable to what we used to refer as "electronic performance support systems" – basically to help you perform a specific task. Many (most) things cannot be effectively taught in micro-doses.

  From the article: "The concern I have is that we make an assumption that we can and should winnow down all learning initiatives to fit into this 4.8 minutes per day or 24 minutes per week."

• Why Organizations Don’t Learn | Internet Time Blog – Another insightful post from Jay Cross. The reference HBR article is good stuff too!

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• How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail – One of the course I teach is Presentation Skills. Given our new "post-truth" society, I'm going to be rolling a lot more of these concepts into our methods.
• In Learning, Size Matters – An early entry in the realm of microlearning. Very robust including a mention of "synchronous microlearning – a concept that has rarely been included in the microlearning discussions of late.
• Skills: The last frontier for digital learning –

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• How To Train Your Millennial – Five good ideas that, though presented for millennials, are valuable for any generation of learner.
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• The Future of the LMS – Where Are We Going? – Nice peek at the LMS possibilities. It would be great if an LMS would come along that incorporated mico-learning, but in a way that added little additional access barriers to the learners.
• Psychology of Corporate eLearning: 5 Things to Consider – Good points. I especially like the "Help them overcome the fear of change". Dovetails nicely with the Progressing Through Change work we do (http://csolved.com/ptc)

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