Conferencing the Pandemic, Part 5: Take-Away Lessons
Learning lessons for collaboration and networking online conferences.
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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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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
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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.
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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
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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.
Read moreDo Relationships Scale?
Meaning is something that requires attention to create and use and the more variables competing for attention in your life, the less meaningful things might be. If this is the case, can we design programs and initiatives that scale up from small to big? Or do we need to reframe the way we see scaling to something akin to a network, whereby there are a lot of small nodes connected together? Networking nodes seems to be a way to go big and go small.
If so, what does this mean for designing systems that scale?
Read moreHealth for Design
The Design4Health conference is on this week bringing together designers from different fields together with health policy, practice and research
Read moreDesign Thinking & Evaluation
What a design-oriented approach to evaluation does is greatly enhance the participant’s sense of the whole, what the needs and desires and fears both parties are dealing with, not just the executive or rational elements. More importantly, this strategy looks at how these different components might interact by simulating a condition in which they might play out.
Read moreSystems Thinking, Logic Models and Evaluation
The American Evaluation Association conference is on right now in San Antonio and with hundreds of sessions spread over four days it is hard to focus on just one thing. For those interested in systems approaches to evaluation, the conference has had a wealth of learning opportunities.
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