Conference Curiosity Didn’t Kill The Proverbial Cat. It Awakened The Attendee March 31, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Imagine a conference where every attendee was learning, a world where what the attendee wondered was more interesting than what the expert presenter knew, and curiosity counted for more than certain knowledge. (With nods to a quote from The Cluetrain Manifesto.) I don’t know about you. I certainly want to attend a conference where what … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Experience Design Tagged With: , association, conferences, content, Education & Adult Learning, engagement, formal learning, GenY, informal learning, Millennial
We Are The Problem: We Are Selling Conference Snake Oil March 30, 2010 by Jeff Hurt 80 percent of what we learn comes from informal learning.* Ironically, 60% to 80% of a conference attendee’s time is spent in formal learning, passively listening to a presenter. Unfortunately, 14 days later we only recall 20% of what we hear in those presentations. (John Medina, Brain Rules; E. Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching). 30 … [Read more…] Filed Under: Business Model, Conference Education Tagged With: , association, conference learning model, conferences, content, Education & Adult Learning, formal learning, informal learning, professional development
The Conference Session Is Dead March 25, 2010 by Jeff Hurt The conference session is not the appropriate shell for most learning experiences. The sixty- or ninety-minute presentation was created for the convenience of the institution, not the learner. The conference session is a triumph of standardization and it is so ingrained in our thinking we still buy and sell seat time rather than performance improvement. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , association, blended learning, conference session, conferences, content, Education & Adult Learning, formal learning, informal learning, learning, Unconference
