Happy new year! We hope your first week back at work isn't too bad - allow us to get you up to speed with our picks of L&D news and opinion.

Let us know what you think of the articles we've shared, and tell us what you've enjoyed reading recently too.

Learning

- What makes us human and what it means for future L&D propositions (Mind Click)

- 5 ways to avoid overwhelming learners (eLearning Industry)

- What is meta learning? Where has it been used successfully? (Ed Tech Review)

Skills

- 5 team building games that can teach critical thinking skills (Global Digital Citizen Foundation)

- How to be happy: a guide for teachers (and everyone else) (The Guardian)

- 6 do's and don'ts when creating a self-managing organisation (Corporate Rebel)

Resources

- 12 L&D blogs of Christmas (Good Practice)

- How we learn: a reading list (How we get to next)

- What we learned about management in 2016, in 19 charts (Harvard Business Review)

Tech

- Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence (Quartz)

- Virtual reality can leave you with an existential hangover (The Atlantic)

- How Microsoft and LinkedIn plan to change the way the world works (Inc)