Conferencing the Pandemic, Part 5: Take-Away Lessons
Learning lessons for collaboration and networking online conferences.
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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 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 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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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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Futures for Education, Learning and Work
The shift to online education by universities is going to be a big experiment in learning and survival and it’s not clear that they will achieve either.
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Learning to Learn
The ‘pandemic pause’ has created much interest in online education when what we need is real learning. Many of us might be looking to boost our skills and knowledge base as work slows down for many sectors (or stops altogether). The term ‘learning’ is popping up everywhere as education institutions, corporate services, and professional associations
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