Why take this course?    

How many times have you gone to a conference (or organized one) where everyone actively learned new things and connected the topics of the conference with their day-to-day work back home? If you have, you are lucky. Most conferences aren’t like that – but they can be! 

What will you learn?  

This is an engaging and highly personalized course, with ongoing invitations to test, try and practice the new content being learned. During the course, you will work alone both on and off the computer, as well as participate in a group session on-line. Here is a sample of what you will have achieved by the end of the course:

• articulated key attributes of a learning-centered conference and considered how to use them in your own planning
• named persistent conference challenges you want to address and identified potential leverage points
• selected tools from the Learning-Centered Conferences Toolbox and used them in the event you are planning
• practiced refining conference designs by giving and receiving conference design feedback
• drafted your conference design with a plan for integrating additional learning-centered aspects into your upcoming conference.