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What’s the best learning model for conference sessions?

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” —Jeff Hurt, We Must Stop Promoting Conference Fast-Track, Artificial, Butt-In-Seat, Surface Learning. As explained in my books , we know that the active learning that occurs through attendee discovery is indeed more effective than the learning that may result from sharing information with passive listeners.

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Three better alternatives to the conference lecture

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Ah, the ubiquitous conference one-hour lecture. Actually I don’t need to do that since Donald Bligh listed them all in his classic book What’s The Use Of Lectures? Image attribution: Marisha Aziz Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

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For more information on how to do this, see my book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need.). Here are my impressions of a session I attended in 2011.). Complex problems. Complex problems (“unknown unknowns”) are even harder to resolve. Here are some examples.