Designing Next Generation Conference Education Sessions

Designing Next Generation

Conference Education Sessions

Creating an Environment for Informal & Formal Learning

in a Digital Age

Part 1

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1) Identify six

principles for

designing

next-gen

conference

education

sessions

2) Discover new ways to integrate horizontal, collaborative learning opps

3) Discuss how room environments & traditional setups affect learning

What is education?

Is there a difference

between education & information?

According to US EPA:

Information provides facts, figures, opinions.

Education teaches skills• critical thinking• problem solving• collaboration• decision making• evaluation• analysis

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Conference education often embraces a Clone Culture

Cloned: • Learning• Knowledge• Ideas

Our education endeavors built on outdated, traditional model

• Oxford University

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• Oxford University• WW II

• Oxford University• WW II • Industrial Revolution

Anyone from the 1800’s could walk

into most conference

education sessions and feel right at

Traditional Conference Education uses a push method

• Old• Training• Rigid• Program• Mandated• Formal

New Conference Education uses a push method

• Old• Training• Rigid• Program• Mandated• Formal

• New• Learning• Flexible• Platform• Self-Service• Informal

The Traditional Conference Push Method

Conference & Event Organizers decide where bus going, attendees along for ride.(Good for newbies, bad for veterans)

The New ConferencePull Method

Riders choose destination, speed, route & decide if they want to take detours or help others. (Best for veterans and experienced professionals)

Four Information Ages

1. Writing

2. Scroll to Codex

3. Printing Press

4. Internet

Historian Robert Darton

Learning undergoing major change 1. Internet

2. MMOs

3. Informal learning

4. Work changes

5. Culture changes

6. Brain science

1) Identify six

principles for

designing

next-gen

conference

education

sessions

#1: Conference ed sessions must transition to

Participatory Learning

• Internet changed how we all learn, play, socialize, engage in life

• Commonplace not exotic

• About a process, not product

• Commonplace not exotic

• About a process, not product

• Not passive

• Conversations and comments

#2: Conference ed sessions must transition from

Presumed Authority to Collective Credibility

• Communal

• Democratic

• Problem solving through group processes

• Interdisciplinary

• Requires helping attendees learn skills to address different points of views

More Horizontal Structures

• Traditional – authoritative, top-down

• Knowledge gap between speaker & audience shrunk

• Corporate world emphasizing collaboration, teamwork, problem-solving

• Knowledge making together

LO #1LO #2

• Emphasis on Peer2Peer

• Less monologues and panel dialogues

LO #1LO #2

#4: Conference ed sessions must provide a variety

Formal & Informal Learning

• 80% of learning is from informal learning

• Move from push to pull methods

Novice workers Mature ExperiencedDirected Self-Directed Helping OthersClass Discovery CoachingCourse Searching (Google) Mentoring

Source: Jay Cross’ Working Smarter

Novice workers Mature ExperiencedDirected Self-Directed Helping OthersClass Discovery CoachingCourse Searching (Google) MentoringLecture Trial-and-error StorytellingTest/Exam Collaborating Giving Feedback1 Right Answer Asking Nurturing

Novice workers Mature ExperiencedDirected Self-Directed Helping OthersClass Discovery CoachingCourse Searching (Google) MentoringLecture Trial-and-error StorytellingTest/Exam Collaborating Giving Feedback1 Right Answer Asking NurturingCurriculum Skimming ModelingListening Observing ReflectingInstructions Conversing Connecting

Networked Learning

• Learning is social

• Conversational and partnering

• Developing mediation skills:Learning to…“Disagree without being disagreeable.”

#5: Conference sessions must transition to

Networked Learning

• Rejects “Prisoner Dilemma”

• Emphasizes flexibility & outcomes

#5: Conference sessions must transition to

Networked Learning

• See’s learning as mobilizing networks

• From assertive to enabling

#6: Conference ed sessions must be

Interactive & Without Walls

• Life-Long Learning

• Venues with free Wi-Fi

• Encourages sharing of social media experiences

• Many-to-multitudes (engages those not present, extends messages to those restricted by $$ or schedule)Examples: Darfur, Tibet

• Extending ideas, practices and even failures for betterment of the industry, profession

Sources: Digital

Media & Learning

funded by John D.

and Catherine T.

MacArthur

Foundation from

the University of

Michigan & MIT

Embrace Learnscaping For Conferences & Events

• Remove barriers to learn & network

• Seed communities with content to discuss

• Increase the bandwidth of learning opps (provide informal seating areas, free charging stations)

• Plan structured, facilitated opps for peer discussion

• Give preference to facilitators more than presenters

• Be a conduit for facilitated conversations

• Conversations are the stem cells of learning: they create & transmit knowledge ~ Jay Cross

• Open conversations increase innovation

People usually forget 90% of what they learn in a class within 30 days. Majority of loss occurs within hours of class.

German psychologist & memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus

Traditional Theater & Classroom

Decreases• Peer Engagement

looking at back of heads & not eyes

Decreases • Attention & Learning

Those sitting stage right & stage left must turn head and body up to 80 degrees to see presenter

Decreases • Blood Flow To Brain

Any attendee that must turn neck 15 degrees or more to either side

Decreases • Oxygen

If presenter moves around room or down aisles, turning bodies up to 180 degrees causes lower back & leg pain and the ability to breath deeply

How To Resolve • Set to the long wall

Source: Dr. Paul Radde, Ph.D.Seating Matters

How To Resolve • Set to the long wall• Curve seating or use Chevron

How To Resolve • Set to the long wall• Curve seating or use Chevron• Face each chair directly

How To Resolve • Set outside chairs, still in straight

rows, toward presentation

How To Resolve • Set outside chairs, still in straight

rows, toward presentation• Provide multiple screens

Stimulate More Of The Senses

Visuals Trump Other Senses

80% of the info the brain receives is visual

Source: Dr. Robert LeamnsonUniversity of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Light & Color affects how the brain learns

Source: Dr. Robert LeamnsonUniversity of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Long Wave Colors (red, orange, yellow) stimulate

more active brain responses

Source: V. Vuontela, 1999

Short Wave Length (green, blue, violet)

more conduciveto relaxation

Source: V. Vuontela, 1999

Combine Audio With Visual

LO #3Source: Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching

Odors Help With Brain Recall

When tested on details of movie while smell of popcorn wafts into air,

remember 10%-50% more

LO #3Source: Proust Affect, Chue, S. & Downes, JJ (2002)

Active Learning Increases Memory Retention & Stability

LO #3Source: Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching

Active Learning: Discussions help recall

1) Identify six

principles for

designing

next-gen

conference

education

sessions

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