Moving Towards More Peeragogy Learning Experiences For Conferences And Associations August 16, 2012 by Jeff Hurt What if at your next education experience, the speaker gave all the expert-power to the audience? What if the participants were empowered to take more control of their learning, collaboration and dialogue? It’s happening in secondary schools, colleges, universities and some education experiences across the globe. It’s peeragogy or paragogy, also known as peer-based learning. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , adult education, adult learning, adult learning principles, andragogy, conference education, conference tips, conferences, horizontal peer learning, peer-based learning, peer-to-peer
Creating Community, Identity And Reflection With Your Conference Space May 17, 2012 by Jeff Hurt Have you ever seen a movie that starts with a fast action scene? Immediately, you are pulled into the middle of things. Screenwriters call this media res or in the middle of a plot. They know that they can pull their viewers into the story by placing the action at the beginning. This same principle … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , collaboration, community, conference best practices, conferences, horizontal peer learning, meeting planning best practices, meeting professional, meeting space, peer-to-peer, reflection
Foster These New Participant Attitudes For Your Next Conference Experience May 9, 2012 by Jeff Hurt I’m feelin’ good from my head to my shoes Know where I’m goin’ and I know what to do I tidied up my point of view I got a new attitude! Patti LaBelle, New Attitude As a conference organizer, when was the last time that you had a new attitude about your participants’ conference experience? … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , collaboration, conference best practices, conferences, horizontal peer learning, meeting planning best practices, meeting professional, peer-to-peer
You Need These Six Actions At Your Next Conference May 8, 2012 by Jeff Hurt Do you design your conference meeting space with participants’ behaviors and actions in mind? Or do you design meeting space based on what is the most efficient and not necessarily the most effective? Regardless, you have the unique ability to motivate and stimulate your participants’ specific behaviors during your event. Orienting The Room For Specific … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , collaboration, conference best practices, conferences, horizontal peer learning, meeting planning best practices, meeting professional, peer-to-peer
Creating Conference Meeting Space For Innovation And Collaboration April 25, 2012 by Jeff Hurt Walk into any space and consciously or not, that space tells us about how to respond. We internally feel what we are supposed to do there. We read the physical environment like we read another person’s emotions. The context of the space determines what we do there. Space Matters Space is the body language of … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , collaboration, conference best practices, conferences, horizontal peer learning, meeting planning best practices, meeting professional, peer-to-peer
Catalyst Conferences: How To Plan And Produce Next-Generation Conferences & Events March 10, 2010 by Jeff Hurt Here is the slidedeck from my presentation to EventSolutions 2010 on Catalyst Conferences: How To Plan and Produce Next-Generation Conferences And Events. People today are learning in new ways that are both collective and egalitarian. They contribute to Wikipedia, comment on blogs, teach themselves programming and figure out work-arounds to online video games. They follow … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Experience Design Tagged With: , catalyst conferences, EventSolutions 2010, horizontal peer learning, informal learning, next-generation conferences, social learning
