modernizing conference education
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With all the advancements today, why does most conference education still feature a talking head and passive listeners? Is this the best way for attendees to learn and remember information?TRANSCRIPT
Education Model
Modernizing The
Conference
About MeCoal Miner’s
GrandsonWest Virginia Hillbilly
Nonprofit Junkie
Environmental
Advocate
Meeting & Event Professional
Education Evangelist
Education
ConferenceEducatio
n
Talking Head
Talking Head
Passive Listener
Transportati
on
To this…
To this…
To this…
To this…
To this…
Why?
Do conference ed sessions
still look
like this?
Communicatio
n
To this…
To this…
To this…
To this…
To this…
To this…
To this…
Why?Do conference ed sessions
still look
like this?
Talking HeadPassive Listener
While
Hair haschange
d
& changed
While & changed
& changed
& changed
& changed
& changed
This is still what attendees see
in our ed sessions
Back of Head
Back of Head
Back of Head
Why
?
Do conference education
sessions still look
like this?
Why
?still look
like this?Meh. Is Right
Do conference education
sessions
Sessions
Create
Most
Clone
Cultures
Conference Education
Ideas
Cloned Learning, Knowledge
Leave no attendee
behind
Clone
CulturesOne size fits all
WHY
Built on OutdatedTraditional Mode
ls
Ed Sessions
Oxford University
12th Century
With all society advancements
Talking HeadPassive Listener
We still use
Old Models
Could walk into our
Conference Education Sessions
and feel at home
Anyone from1800s
educated to workin factories
IndustrialRevolutio
n
Industrial
Revolutio
n
Industrial Revolutio
n
Training, Rigid, Programs
Formal, Passive
Traditional
Conference Education Push Method
Good for newbies
Bad for veterans
Push Method
Informal, Active
Conference Education Pull
Method
Today’s
LearningFlexible, Platforms
Pull Method
and experienced professionals
Best for veterans
Is there a difference inWill Discuss
Education & Information
TraditionalConference EducationIs
Lecture Based
To Attendees
What does that
do
When they sit in lectures all day?
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Info keeps coming
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coming
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Info keeps coming
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Ed Sessions like these chocolates
Info keeps coming
& coming&
coming
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Info keeps coming
& coming&
coming
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Info keeps coming
& coming&
coming
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Faster &
Faster
Ed Sessions like these chocolates
Info keeps coming
& coming&
coming
& coming
& coming
& coming
& coming
& coming
& coming
Faster &
FasterWe try to cram it all in
Pour informationWe try to
Into attendees
heads
Zombie
Attendees
We create
Walking
Dead
Help our attendeesWe can
Feel less like
Evil Step Sisters
missing the ed ball
Connected, Engaged& More Like
Participants
Less of this
How to have
& More
of this
In exchange cafes
We’ll discussMore & How
Stay Cool!
Thank You
Stay Cool!
Thank You
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