Meeting Design THE POWER OF THE CROWD How do you use the wisdom of the crowds? Participants attend conferences to gain more knowledge, but as a group they also bring with them a wealth of experience and brainpower. Those who exploit the full potential of the interaction contribute immense added value to their conference. The time is ripe for this, argue four specialists in the field of conferences and crowdsourcing.

(Science Daily) Pop quiz! Tests are good for: (a) Assessing what you’ve learned; (b) Learning new information; (c) a & b; (d) None of the above. The correct answer? According to research from psychological science, it’s both (a) and (b) – while testing can be useful as an assessment tool, the actual process of taking a test can also help us to learn and retain new information over the long term and apply it across different contexts.

(one+ magazine) I have always hated online courses. Even though I’ve been a Net enthusiast since before there was a Net, I have never appreciated when intimate, real-life encounters are relegated to the digital realm. Education is a particularly human-to-human transmission. Students learn as much from watching their professors think in real time as they do hearing whatever facts and ideas come out of them.

Want to experience a Synthetron discussion? Here is the opportunity: this month open thinking tank Join the thinking tank debate " Out with the old, in with the new" on: 26 Jan 5.00 PM CET (4pm UK time)h link: " http://thethinkingtank.co.uk/ Topic: We are probably far enough into January already for most of us to have abandoned our New Year’s resolutions.

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The world launch: at FRESH 2012 in Copenhagen KICK-START YOUR WORK MEETING – A HANDBOOK FOR FACILITATORS I don’t agree, this not a book for facilitators.

Some starting points for you as a reader Why is it important to read a book on how to kick-start a work meeting? What is effective and efficient and what is not effective and efficient within the context of a work meeting? Will such a meeting automatically become better if it is effective and efficient?

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