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Ravn, Ib; Elsborg, Steen – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2011
The typical conference consists of a series of PowerPoint presentations that tend to render participants passive. Students of learning have long abandoned the transfer model that underlies such one-way communication. We propose an alternative theory of conferences that sees them as a forum for learning, mutual inspiration and human flourishing. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Instructional Design
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Ravn, Ib – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to call attention to the fact that conferences for professionals rely on massive one-way communication and hence produce little learning for delegates--and to introduce an alternative, the "learning conference", that involves delegates in fun and productive learning processes.…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Learning Processes, Training Methods, Andragogy
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Ausburn, Lynna J.; Brown, Dovie – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2006
In an effort to individualize instruction and improve the effectiveness of instructor-learner transactions, education and instructional research has addressed a wide assortment of learner variables and assessed their relationships to instructional methods and environments. Adult education has recently seen the development by Conti and Kolody of a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Technical Education, Teaching Methods