Tag Archive: active learning

Resurrect Lifeless Lectures: Tips For Turning Listeners Into Learners

Tweet You want me to do what? Include audience engagement and participation in my presentation? You’ve got to be joking. I’ve got too much content to cover! We’ve all heard that excuse from presenters. They fear if they don’t cover all the content, the listener won’t get all of the information. We love to explain…

Three Event Infographics On Conference Education And ROI

Tweet Here are three Infographics from Experient’s e4 2010 Conference. Modernizing Conference Education – 15 min, TED-Style talk as part of Summer Storms Building A Customized ROI Tool That Measures Results – Terri Breining’s 15 min, TED-Style talk as part of Summer Storms Developing Next Generation Conference Education Sessions – Cafe Session Images by GraphicFootprints….

Why The PCMA Learning Lounge Worked

Tweet “What if no one shows up? What will we do?”  It was 6:45 am on a Monday morning in Las Vegas. We wondered if anyone would actually show up when PCMA’s Convening Leaders’ Learning Lounge opened at 7 am.  As the final countdown started, we were about to find out first hand if people…

Your Memory: The Engine And Bottleneck Of Learning

Tweet Myth: The more we sit and listen to conference lectures, the more we learn. Fact: Our memory is both the engine and the bottleneck of learning. The more information we receive without thinking about it, the more we corrupt our learning. Three Critical Factors Of Working Memory Working memory is the part of your…

The Brain As A Gambler And Conference Camouflaged Listeners

Tweet If we wanted to create an education environment that is directly opposed to what the brain is good at doing, we would design something like today’s conference lectures. Listening to a 45-, 60- or 90-minute lecture floods the working memory with information. We can’t store everything we hear in our memory. The Brain As…