Conferencing the Pandemic, Part 4: Engagement
Online conferences are best when they engage people and these four conferences did it differently, to different effects.
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education & learning
Education and learning
Conferencing the Pandemic, Part 3: Content
A great conference isn’t much without content, presenting challenges and opportunities for online learners. In previous posts, I highlighted some of the lessons learned from four conferences I attended within weeks of one another in October, 2020 providing a unique opportunity to compare and contrast different models, modalities and approaches to learning, networking, and collaboration.
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Conferencing the Pandemic 2: Format Matters
The manner in which we set up conferences online can make a big difference for what we get from them. In my last post I profiled four conferences that were held within the last two weeks of October, 2020 providing a point of comparison for helping understand what works and what can support learning, collaboration,
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Conferencing the Pandemic 1: Setting the Stage
Professional conferences have a new look, feel, and effect during a pandemic providing many learning lessons. The global pandemic has disrupted many industries and professional conferences and the training, network development, and knowledge sharing that they offer is no exception. For many professional organizations conference and continuing education training are at the centre of their
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Conferencing Remotely
I’m conducting a review of four online conferences to share the design and educational lessons learned from each of them over the next four posts.
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Innovation’s Fear Factor
The fear of failure are reasons why our best work never sees the light of day ; gaming can make us braver. It seems absurd to imagine an organization devoting months of staff time, attention, and money to a project that has been executed perfectly only to have it never launch. Welcome to the world
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Learning’s Problems
Learning is the key to innovation and resilience and it also presents us with problems. Developmental evaluation, adaptive strategy, and learning organizations are a few of the concepts used to reflect an attitude of responsiveness and innovation. We pivot, flex, adapt, and are resilient — or so we tell ourselves. In some cases we are
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To Teach, To Learn: How Committed Are We to Both?
Our learning institutions are not set up for actual learning. Look at the costs and outcomes and we might design them differently.
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Learning Myths & The Learner
The idea that we have a learning ‘style’ is a myth; let’s stop perpetuating it and engage learners instead. While I was teaching in a program for young social entrepreneurs one of the learners approach me and said they were struggling with some of the reading materials and discussions because they were a ‘visual learner.’
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