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An LMS is just an e-learning vending machine.

The debate is not about whether e-learning is useful or efficient, but whether the e-learning of today will meet the skills of tomorrow.

<li><strong>You can learn to tell fact from non-fact. </strong>Detecting deception (or, I think, error, or misrepresentation) is a skill, Downes says, “and you need just as much as your computer needs to be able to detect malware.”</li> <li><strong>You’ve gotta decide.</strong> This point is key: decision-making isn’t rote performance, which means it’s not based solely on facts.</li>

<p>Rewards actually impede our problem-solving ability because they cause us to restrict our consideration of other ideas and to focus on only one or two ways to solve the problem.&nbsp; As one of the studies Dan references discovered,<strong> "once the task called for even<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> rudimentary cognitive skill</span>, <em>(my emphasis)</em>&nbsp; a larger reward led to poorer performance." </strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;">In a nutshell, rewards work for tasks where you don't have to think. As soon as you have to engage in any kind of thinking, rewards STOP WORKING. </span></strong></p>