The Brain’s Natural Learning Trumps The fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience study how the brain takes in, stores, retrieves and applies information. Cognitive scientists and educators are learning new ways to apply this information. It’s that application that has lead to these learning trumps.

The MSI welcomes students from all over the world with an interest in the content side of meetings, meeting design, Meeting Architecture.  Her daily, weekly and monthly work at the Meeting Support Institute combines multiple and different kinds of tasks.

Prezi is presentation software that starts with one big canvas. It works not linear, like a series of slides, but follows a logic of the big picture and zooming in towards details. A very different but natural approach that breaks with rather boring series of slides and keeps your participants attention by regularly zooming out to the big picture...

SEE ATTACHED PDF  ABSTRACT We have conducted a study of meetings to gain an understanding of how conversation is affected by computer use. We videotaped five workplace meetings, noting the disruptions that occurred, and recording people’s disengagements when they performed tasks with paper or with laptops. We saw evidence that people preferred these disengagements not to exceed 10 seconds. When tasks were performed on laptops, disengagements were more likely to exceed this

This site is designed to provide information about instructional design principles and how they relate to teaching and learning. Instructional design, also know as instructional systems design, is the analysis of learning needs and systematic development of instruction. Instructional designers often use instructional technology or educational technology as tools for developing instruction. Instructional design models typically specify a method, that if followed will facilitate the transfer of knowledge, skills and attitude to the recipient or acquirer of the instruction.

Congressen, vergaderingen, workshops: iedereen heeft er wel eens van gehoord of aan deelgenomen. Bij de organisatie ervan komt heel wat kijken!

Waarom organiseer je een congres of bijeenkomst, welke verschillende vormen zijn er, hoe stem je vorm en inhoud op elkaar af, wat is de rol van de opdrachtgever én van de uiteindelijke (congres)deelnemer? Hoe belangrijk is de locatiekeuze voor het succes van een bijeenkomst? Wat is de doelstelling van de bijeenkomst? Slechts enkele vragen die duiden op de complexiteit van de organisatie van externe bijeenkomsten.