http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/everything-about-learning/ This article talks about the inefficiencies of the way the we currently learn. While the article may be "merely summarizing a greater body of research", I think that it has a few good points worth reading about. For example, the article suggests that we interleave certain skills by practicing a variety of similar skills, and that way we will retain more information for a longer period of time.