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Three better alternatives to the conference lecture

Conferences that Work

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? As an example I’ll use a three-day conference I’m currently designing. How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. If so, download.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

How to help solve participants’ obvious, complicated, and complex problems at conferences. For each domain, I’ll include examples of meeting processes you can use to satisfy participants’ problem solving wants and needs. Here are my impressions of a session I attended in 2011.). Experimental conferences.

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What’s the best learning model for conference sessions?

Conferences that Work

” —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.